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Sargiani, Renan de Almeida; Ehri, Linnea C.; Maluf, Maria Regina – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
In this experiment, we examined whether beginning readers benefit more from grapheme-phoneme decoding (GPD) than from whole-syllable decoding (WSD) instruction in learning to read and write words. Sixty Brazilian Portuguese-speaking first graders (M age = 6 years 1 month) who knew letter names but could not read or write words were randomly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Decoding (Reading)
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Weiser, Beverly; Mathes, Patricia – Review of Educational Research, 2011
Although connectionist models provide a framework explaining how the decoding and encoding abilities work reciprocally to enhance reading and spelling ability, encoding instruction in today's schools is not a priority. Although a limited amount of high-quality experimental or control studies to date (N = 11) give empirical support to using direct,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, At Risk Students, Reading Difficulties, Spelling
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Kroese, Judith M.; Mather, Nancy; Sammons, Janice – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
"We cannot allow the quality of special services to preclude conquering reading disabilities (Horne, 1978, p. 582)." This study was conducted to explore how teachers' spelling abilities relate to student outcomes. The results indicated that the students enrolled in classrooms where the teachers had the lowest knowledge of phoneme-grapheme…
Descriptors: Spelling, Teacher Characteristics, Phonemes, Graphemes