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Treiman, Rebecca; Kessler, Brett – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
Learning to read and spell involves learning about the written forms of words and how these are linked to language. Writing systems include formal patterns, which pertain to the appearance of written words, and functional patterns, which pertain to links between units of writing and units of language. We review the evidence that learners of a…
Descriptors: Spelling, Written Language, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Cassar, Marie; Treiman, Rebecca; Moats, Louisa; Pollo, Tatiana Cury; Kessler, Brett – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Children with dyslexia are believed to have very poor phonological skills for which they compensate, to some extent, through relatively well-developed knowledge of letter patterns. We tested this view in Study 1 by comparing 25 dyslexic children and 25 younger normal children, chosen so that both groups performed, on average, at a second-grade…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Spelling, Comparative Analysis, Children