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Treiman, Rebecca – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Examines kindergarten and first-grade children's classifications and spellings and differences in their classifications of sounds from those of adults. In addition to these spelling, phoneme recognition, and phoneme deletion tasks, each child took the reading and spelling subtests of the Wide Range Achievement Test. (AS)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classification, Kindergarten, Listening Comprehension
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Ross, Shannon; Treiman, Rebecca; Bick, Suzanne – Cognitive Development, 2004
To examine how young children learn to read new words, we asked preschoolers (N = 115, mean age 4 years, 8 months) to learn and remember novel spellings that made sense based on letter names (e.g. TZ for "tease") and spellings that were visually distinctive but phonetically inappropriate. Children who were more knowledgeable about letter names…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spelling, Phonetics, Difficulty Level