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van Rijthoven, Robin; Kleemans, Tijs; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
We examined the response to a phonics through spelling intervention for children with developmental dyslexia in word and pseudoword reading efficiency and word spelling. Furthermore, we investigated to what extent the response to the intervention is robust across different cognitive profiles (phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonics, Intervention, Dyslexia
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Wang, Ling – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2020
Invented spellings refer to incorrect attempts to spell words while writing, which are important indicators of children's development of phonemic awareness. Making Words is a popular activity to teach phonics and spelling, in which students manipulate letters in sequence to construct target words and then sort them into rhyming patterns. This…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Computer Software, Phonemic Awareness, Teaching Methods
Candace Duncan Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The study was conducted to describe how third graders, teachers, and interventionists perceive the influence of a phonics treatment program on the reading achievement of third-grade students in a school in the Western United States. The study was guided by the research questions on the perceptions of students, teachers, and interventionists on the…
Descriptors: Success, Failure, Phonics, Reading Programs
Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Cartwright, Kelly B. – Grantee Submission, 2022
The development of beginning decoding and encoding skills is influenced by linguistic skills as well as executive functions (EFs). These higher-level cognitive processes include working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility, and individual differences in these EFs have been shown to contribute to early academic learning. The present study…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Decoding (Reading), Prediction, Language Skills
Philippakos, Zoi A., Ed.; Graham, Steve, Ed. – Guilford Press, 2022
Writing skills are essential for success in the 21st-century school and workplace, but most classrooms devote far more time to reading instruction, with writing often addressed in isolation or excluded. In this insightful professional development resource and text, leading researchers discuss why and how to integrate writing and reading…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
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Nicholson, Tom; Tiru, Shanthi – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2019
Researchers have found that summer reading loss contributes to the reading achievement gap between low and high socioeconomic (SES) children. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a 3-week summer intervention in addressing this slide for 36 low SES children compared with another 36 children in a matched control group from one New…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Reading Programs, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement
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Arciuli, Joanne; Bailey, Benjamin – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Children with autism have an increased likelihood of reading difficulties. The reasons for this are numerous and varied, but many children with autism can learn to read when they are provided with evidence-based early reading instruction. Method: Here, we provide an overview of some of the factors that impact early reading development for…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction
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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)
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Callcott, Deborah; Hammond, Lorraine; Hill, Susan – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
While movement is critical to young children's development, there is an ongoing debate about the time devoted to teaching movement in early childhood classrooms. Nevertheless, research has established a link between specific precursor motor skills and early literacy development. This study investigated the synergistic effect of practising specific…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Movement Education, Phonological Awareness, Direct Instruction
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Richmond, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article critiques the current arrangements for the assessment and testing of English in early-years settings and primary schools in England. It is broadly supportive of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. It is highly critical of the Year 1 phonics check, and of the tests of reading and of grammar, punctuation and spelling at the end of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Testing, Early Childhood Education
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Beard, Roger; Brooks, Greg; Ampaw-Farr, Jaz – Literacy, 2019
Successive UK government policies have strengthened the phonics element of the National Curriculum for English in England. The policies have included inviting publishers to submit completed self-assessments of their systematic phonics programmes. The self-assessment criteria focus on what is deemed to be 'high-quality provision', as defined in the…
Descriptors: Phonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Gentry, J. Richard; Ouellette, Gene P. – Stenhouse Publishers, 2019
With the concise and readable "Brain Words," you will learn how children's brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage. Introducing their original, research-based framework of "brain words"--dictionaries in the brain where students store and…
Descriptors: Neurological Organization, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Class Activities, Thinking Skills
Blevins, Wiley – International Literacy Association, 2019
There are 26 letters in the English language. These letters, in various combinations, represent the 44 sounds in the language. Teaching students the basic letter-sound combinations gives them access to sounding out approximately 84% of the words in English print. There needs to be equal amounts of time need to be spent on teaching the meanings of…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Phonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Bauer-Kealey, Meredyth; Mather, Nancy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Approximately two-thirds of community college students nationwide are considered to not be ready for the demands of college and are therefore required to enroll in at least one developmental education course. Unfortunately, researchers have found that enrollment in developmental classes often has adverse effects on community college students and…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Skill Development
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Donovan, Jennifer L.; Marshall, Chlo? R. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
This study explores the ability of children with and without dyslexia to provide meaningful verbal self-reports of the strategies they used in a spelling recognition task. Sixty-six children aged 6 years 3 months-9 years 9 months were tested on a range of standardised measures and on an experimental spelling recognition task based on the work of…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Spelling, Learning Strategies, Children
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