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Del Campo, Roxana; Buchanan, William R.; Abbott, Robert D.; Berninger, Virginia W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The relationships of different levels of phonological processing (sounds in heard and spoken words for whole words, syllables, phonemes, and rimes) to multi-leveled functional reading or writing systems were studied. Participants in this cross-sectional study were students in fourth-grade (n = 119, mean age 116.5 months) and sixth-grade (n = 105,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Reading, Writing (Composition), Grade 4
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Abbott, Robert D.; Fayol, Michel; Zorman, Michel; Casalis, Séverine; Nagy, William; Berninger, Virginia W. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2016
Two longitudinal studies of word reading, spelling, and reading comprehension identified commonalities and differences in morphophonemic orthographies--French (Study 1, n = 1,313) or English (Study 2, n = 114) in early childhood (Grade 2)and middle childhood (Grade 5). For French and English, statistically significant concurrent relationships…
Descriptors: French, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Morphology (Languages)
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Berninger, Virginia W.; Abbott, Robert D.; Zook, Dori; Ogier, Stacy; Lemos-Britton, Zenia; Brooksher, Rebecca – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
Forty-eight first-grade children with reading difficulties were taught 48 words using a whole-word method, a subword method for making connections between each color-coded spelling unit and its corresponding phonemes, or a combined whole-word and subword method. The subword method showed a reliable advantage on a test of real word reading.…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonetics, Primary Education
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McCutchen, Deborah; Abbott, Robert D.; Green, Laura B.; Beretvas, S. Natasha; Cox, Susanne; Potter, Nina S.; Quiroga, Teresa; Gray, Audra L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2002
A study investigated the effects of a 2-week summer institute that taught kindergarten and first-grade teachers (n=44) about learning disabilities and effective instruction, stressing the importance of explicit instruction in phonological and orthographic awareness. First-graders taught by trained teachers outperformed controls on phonological…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten