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| Reading and Writing: An… | 1 |
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Peer reviewedBryant, Peter; Nunes, Terezinha; Bindman, Miriam – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2000
Looks at the link between children's understanding of a morphemically-based orthographic rule and their awareness of morphemic distinctions. Questions the orthographic rule of using the apostrophe to denote possession in English. Concludes that different forms of linguistic awareness affect different aspects of reading and spelling. (SC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Longitudinal Studies, Metalinguistics, Morphemes
