Picture Mnemonic Intervention

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This intervention study was conducted in order to see if using picture mnemonics would help children in kindergarten be able to identify the letters of the alphabets both accurately and dependably. Since children, of this age group, quite often struggle in terms of recognizing the alphabet and transferring that letter knowledge to their reading, this study took a new approach to teaching the letters and their corresponding sounds. The authors hoped that with this intensive intervention, that children (particularly kindergarteners) taught using this method would be able to improve in three specific content areas. The first was being able to identify the beginning letter sounds. Secondly, they wanted to see an improvement in students being able

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