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Eckler, Ross – 1996
From showing readers the longest words in common usage (22 letters--counterrevolutionaries, deinstitutionalization), to providing readers with a list of words in which all 5 vowels must appear in alphabetical order (abstemious, facetious), to discovering the name in an American phone book where the most letters of the alphabet are used without…
Descriptors: Educational Games, English, Letters (Alphabet), Linguistics
Peer reviewedTempleton, Shane – Reading Teacher, 1980
Discusses what children know--and don't know they know--about the linguistic concept of the word, with implications for teaching. (DD)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Semantics
Download full textCroft, Cedric – 1987
How can classroom spelling programs be structured and organized to fit current approaches to language? Ten major considerations can be identified: (1) spelling is a skill of writing; (2) spelling is best learned as a component of writing, and not as a result of studying isolated skills; (3) not all children will pick up spelling as a result of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Spelling, Spelling Instruction
Peer reviewedJones, D. Joan – Reading, 1988
Describes how one teacher helped students in her third grade class, who had below average spelling and reading skills, improve their reading achievement by using a structured, graded, multifaceted approach to spelling instruction. (ARH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedSchlagal, Robert C.; Schlagal, Joy Harris – Language Arts, 1992
Discusses the marginalization of spelling instruction. Presents several classroom implications supported by research on the development of orthographic knowledge as reflected in children's spelling errors. Addresses the issues related to placement, assessment, word study, and writing. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Orthographic Symbols, Research Utilization, Spelling
Brand, Clara S. – 1978
A great deal of time could be saved in all grades and for all content areas if a truly phonic alphabet were developed. This alphabet would have only one symbol for each sound and only one sound for each symbol so that beginning readers could learn to pronounce any word they could see and spell any word they could pronounce correctly. Such an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Change Strategies, Language Skills, Language Standardization
Lamme, Linda Leonard – 1984
Intended for parents, this book offers insights into how children develop as writers and provides practical ideas for introducing writing activities into the home. Chapters in the book deal with the following topics: (1) the benefits of having preschool children write, the timing of initial instruction, and some assumptions about writing at home;…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Educational Games
