Reports three experiments investigating the use of analogies in spelling acquisition. Observes comparable use of analogies in children with comparable lexical knowledge independently of their grade level or alphabetic skills. Suggests that children establish specific orthographic knowledge from the beginning of literacy acquisition and use this…

To determine what counts as success in a French first grade, an ethnographer investigated what happens when the teacher "applies" her categories of "things students do" to particular situations. The category called "searching" served as an example. To produce a body of data, the teacher commented on videotapes of…

Reports on two studies to determine if teaching poor readers to use inner speech could improve their reading and writing skills. Finds that both experimental groups improved significantly in both reading and writing. Includes three tables containing comparative experimental data. (CFR)