Effects of invented spelling and direct instruction on spelling performance of second-grade boys. [PDF]
Four second‐grade boys, 2 rated by their classroom teacher as below average and 2 as above average in basic language skills, participated in a 16‐week spelling investigation. The participants alternately received, in counterbalanced order, 5 weeks of an invented spelling approach that incorporated 15‐min creative writing periods and 5 weeks of direct ...
Gettinger M.
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Invented spelling in English and pinyin in multilingual L1 and L2 Cantonese Chinese speaking children in Hong Kong. [PDF]
This research examined the relations among Cantonese phonological awareness, invented spelling in Pinyin (in Mandarin), and invented English spelling in 29 first language (L1) and 34 s language (L2) Cantonese-speaking second and third graders in Hong ...
Zhou Y, McBride C.
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Rhythmic training, literacy, and graphomotor skills in kindergarteners. [PDF]
IntroductionThe aim of this manuscript is twofold: first, to investigate the relationship between rhythmic, phonological and graphomotor skills in kindergarten children; and second, to evaluate the possible impact of rhythmic training on the two other ...
Frey A +4 more
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Second Graders' Grapho-Motor Skill Learning and Verbal Learning: The Effects of Socio-Educational Factors. [PDF]
Introduction: Children from low socioeconomic status (SES) families, and in particular, those with a lower level of maternal education, show lower fine-motor skills and lower vocabulary scores than their SES peers whose mothers have a higher level of ...
Hollander C, Adi-Japha E.
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The Impact of Invented Spelling on Early Spelling and Reading
Various authors argue that invented spelling activities with preschool-age children help them to analyse the oral segments of words and to discover the relations between those segments and the corresponding letters.
Margarida Alves Martins +3 more
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The impact of invented spelling on phonemic awareness [PDF]
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a training programme, designed to make preschool-age children’s invented spelling evolve, on their phonemic awareness. The participants were 90 children who were divided into 3 experimental and 3 control groups based on the nature of their invented spelling.
Silva C, Alves Martins M
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The Effects of Invented Spelling Instruction on Literacy Achievement and Writing Motivation
Early writing performance strongly predicts long-term literacy performance. It follows that early underachievement in writing is highly correlated with early underachievement in reading.
Katie Schrodt +2 more
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Supporting Emergent Writing in Preschool Classrooms: Results of a Professional Development Program
Emergent writing is a key component of early literacy development and contributes to later school success, yet it receives little attention in most preschool classrooms.
Barbara D. DeBaryshe
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High-quality lexical representations depend on robust representations of written form (orthography), spoken form (phonology) and meaning (semantics), and strong bonds between them.
Rachael C. Hulme +2 more
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Invented spelling intervention programmes: Comparing explicit and implicit instructions [PDF]
This study aims to compare the effectiveness of two invented spelling intervention programs, one with explicit instruction of graph-phonetics matches and another based on questioning and reflection on the graph-phonetic correspondences (implicit instructions).
Tiago Almeida +2 more
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