*Vocabulary Skills IDENTIFIERS *Emergent Literacy

A study tested the effectiveness of precision teaching through a summer piloG project involving four male students between the ages of 6 and 7, all of whom had demonstrated some difficulty with basic reading skills. The 6-week program concentrated on those skills most important to emergent readers, namely, phonic analysis, sight vocabulary and handwriting. More specifically, objectives for this practicum were for the students: (1) to be able to see and say 20 Preprimer Dolch words in one minute; (2) to say and mark the initial consonant sounds of 24 objects; (3) to write the alphabet upper and lower case; and (4) to increase fine motor skill by 50%. Precision teaching is a monitoring system that is used to measure human behavior; it measures learning and skill proficiency. It consists of three elements: direct measure of specific skills; direct measure of skills using time limits; and the use of continuou