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Pascal Bressoux; Bernard Slusarczyk; Ludovic Ferrand; Michel Fayol – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This research aims at exploring in an irregular orthographic system like French, if spelling is related to written composition. French spelling is particularly interesting because it includes phonographic irregularities (i.e., inconsistencies), lexical difficulties and numerous morphological silent marks (e.g., plural noun, adjective, and verb…
Descriptors: Spelling, Writing Research, Writing (Composition), French
Kenn Apel; Victoria S. Henbest; Yaacov Petscher – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: We examined whether affix type and base word transparency explained variation in third- through sixth-grade students' performance on a number of morphological awareness tasks. Method: Third- through sixth-grade students (n > 500 at each grade) completed morphological awareness tasks from the Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Kenn Apel; Victoria S. Henbest; Yaacov Petscher – Grantee Submission, 2022
Purpose: We examined whether affix type and base word transparency explained variation in third- through sixth-grade students' performance on a number of morphological awareness tasks. Method: Third- through sixth-grade students (n > 500 at each grade) completed morphological awareness tasks from the Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Fejzo, Anila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
The goal of this study was to explore the relationship between morphological awareness and the spelling of morphemes and morphologically complex words among 75 third- and fourth-grade Francophone students of low socio-economic status. To reach this objective, we administered a dictation comprised of morphologically complex words with prefixes,…
Descriptors: French, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Spelling
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Deacon, S. Hélène; Cleave, Patricia L.; Baylis, Julia; Fraser, Jillian; Ingram, Elizabeth; Perlmutter, Signy – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) have demonstrated general spelling and writing difficulties. We investigated the sensitivity of children with SLI to the consistent spelling of root morphemes, a feature to which young typically developing children demonstrate sensitivity. We asked children with SLI and two groups of typically…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Spelling, Writing Difficulties
Ganske, Kathy – Guilford Publications, 2008
This book provides tools to enhance upper-level spelling and vocabulary instruction, and features more than 120 reproducible sorting activities and games. It offers suggestions for helping students build mastery of vowel patterns, syllable structure, syllable stress, consonant and vowel alternations, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, and word…
Descriptors: Sentences, Spelling, Syllables, Vowels