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Learning to Spell: Enduring Theories, Recent Research and Current Issues
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Westwood, Peter – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2018
This review highlights some areas of current interest in teaching students to spell and how spelling skills develop. The topics covered in the paper include: theories of spelling acquisition, theories guiding effective teaching, the importance of word study approaches across the age range, the influence of technology on learning to spell, spelling…
Descriptors: Spelling, Teaching Methods, Spelling Instruction, English (Second Language)
Assessment of Lexical and Non-Lexical Spelling in Students in Grades 1-7
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Kohnen, Saskia; Colenbrander, Danielle; Krajenbrink, Trudy; Nickels, Lyndsey – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2015
The main aim of this study was to develop standardised tests that assess some of the most important spelling skills for children in primary school: sound-letter mappings (non-lexical spelling) and word spelling accuracy (lexical spelling). We present normative comparison data for children in Grades 1-7 as well as measures of validity and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Spelling, Primary Education
Paired-Associate Learning Ability Accounts for Unique Variance in Orthographic Learning
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Wang, Hua-Chen; Wass, Malin; Castles, Anne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
Paired-associate learning is a dynamic measure of the ability to form new links between two items. This study aimed to investigate whether paired-associate learning ability is associated with success in orthographic learning, and if so, whether it accounts for unique variance beyond phonological decoding ability and orthographic knowledge. A group…
Descriptors: Paired Associate Learning, Orthographic Symbols, Foreign Countries, Grade 3
Is the Orthographic/Phonological Onset a Single Unit in Reading Aloud?
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Mousikou, Petroula; Coltheart, Max; Saunders, Steven; Yen, Lisa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Two main theories of visual word recognition have been developed regarding the way orthographic units in printed words map onto phonological units in spoken words. One theory suggests that a string of single letters or letter clusters corresponds to a string of phonemes (Coltheart, 1978; Venezky, 1970), while the other suggests that a string of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonemes, Reading Aloud to Others
Assessing Spelling Skills and Strategies: A Critique of Available Resources
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Kohnen, Saskia; Nickels, Lyndsey; Castles, Anne – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2009
In this paper, we discuss a variety of spelling tests that are used to assess developmental spelling difficulties. We differentiate between tests that are valuable tools to monitor spelling development and spelling tests that should be used to further assess children who are not making sufficient progress in the mainstream classroom. We recommend…
Descriptors: Spelling, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Special Needs Students
What's in a Name: Children's Knowledge about the Letters in Their Own Names.
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Treiman, Rebecca; Broderick, Victor – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Two studies compared children's knowledge about the letters in their name with knowledge of other letters. Findings indicated that Australian first graders and U.S. kindergartners and preschoolers had superior knowledge of letter-name, but not letter-sound, for first letter of their first name. Also, U.S. preschoolers were better at printing the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries