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Abbott, Mary – Elementary School Journal, 2000
Details study of 45 phonics generalizations written from a spelling perspective, 43 of which met a 75 percent or greater reliability usage level. Discusses a rationale for findings, which differ from past usage studies; instructional implications of the analysis; the movement toward word study; and the importance of teacher knowledge about the…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics, Spelling
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Spear-Swerling, Louise – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
This study examined the learning of teacher candidates taking a language arts course in a special-educator preparation program and that of the second graders they tutored in a supervised field component of the course. Teacher candidates' knowledge of literacy instruction was assessed using five knowledge tasks; children were assessed on several…
Descriptors: Spelling, Field Experience Programs, Special Education Teachers, Literacy
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Spencer, Ken – Literacy, 2006
The effect of irregular English orthography (spelling) on foundation literacy, and in particular on alphabetic decoding, is discussed within the context of the orthographic depth hypothesis. A method for circumventing the retarding effects of traditional English orthography, based on the support provided for Chinese pupils learning their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonics, Independent Study, Spelling
McCracken, Marlene; McCracken, Robert – Insights into Open Education, 1976
The teaching of spelling is outlined and discussed in this pamphlet. Three major steps are described: the prewriting stage, teaching the principle of alphabetic writing--the understanding that spelling requires the sequencing of sounds within a word, and teaching the spelling patterns of written English. The pamphlet concludes that two current…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Spelling, Spelling Instruction
McCulloch, Myrna T. – 2000
For 60 years, confusion and misinformation have reigned supreme whenever the subject of teaching phonics comes up for discussion. The paper considers various phonics programs, both old and new, and appraises their effectiveness. It also discusses works on phonetics by some well-known researchers and experts in reading, among them Frank Smith,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy, Phonics, Spelling
Langer, John H. – Elementary English, 1971
The author feels it is psychologically beneficial to permit ghetto children to spell phonetically before teaching them to use standard spellings. (AF)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Phonetics, Phonics
Rohner, Traugott – 1989
This booklet presents a simplified and improved method of writing or spelling English, which simply uses the standard 26-letter alphabet to spell words the way they are pronounced. The booklet criticizes the conventional English spelling system as unnecessarily difficult, inconsistent, and illogical and suggests that easy-to-learn "Basic…
Descriptors: English, Letters (Alphabet), Phonics, Spelling
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Mazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1978
Examines research on phoneme-grapheme correspondences in relation to the validity of certain phonic generalizations and concludes with implications for reading and spelling instruction. (JM)
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Research
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Groff, Patrick – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: Linguistics, Phonemics, Phonetic Analysis, Phonics
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Taylor, D. S. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1981
Presents case that English is not as unsystematic as it appears nor is it a severe obstacle to learning for both native and nonnative speakers by describing the ideographic, syllabic, and alphabetic writing systems. Suggests teachers need a greater awareness of the nature of the English writing system and how to teach it. (BK)
Descriptors: English, Phonemic Alphabets, Phonics, Second Language Instruction
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Groff, Patrick – Elementary School Journal, 1979
Discusses the pros and cons of phonics for spelling. (MP)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Children, Elementary Education, Essays
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Peterson, Susan – Clearing House, 1989
Suggests a spelling riddle activity that can stimulate students' awareness of the complexities of English while providing practice in dictionary skills, phonics, and vocabulary development. Presents several examples. (MS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Spelling, Spelling Instruction
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Gunning, Thomas G. – Reading Teacher, 1995
Describes "Word Building," a system for teaching phonics based on students' natural tendency to seek out pronounceable word parts. Describes how one spelling pattern might be taught in a typical lesson. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Skills, Spelling
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Groff, Patrick – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1994
States that in the 1970s, sight words existed in a "topsy-turvy world" in which the variety of definitions was confusing. Suggests that readers recognize sight words as single, holistic units without segmenting and attending to letters one at a time, and without sounding out and blending letters sequentially. Explains the connection…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Sight Method
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Tudor, Sarah – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
A total of 46 children in Grades 2 and 3 with low word-level skills were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups that received supplemental phonics-based reading instruction. One group received intervention October through March (21.5 hours), and one group served as a control from October through March and later received intervention March through May…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reading Fluency, Decoding (Reading), Grade 3
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