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Individual Variation in French-L2 Spelling Ability
… (PE), morphological awareness (MA), and general spelling ability, in both English and French. English vocabulary, PE, and MA accounted for 35% of the variance in overall English spelling. French vocabulary and MA accounted for 28% of the variance in overall French spelling, but French PE was not …
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A Study of Spelling Ability as a Predictor of Reading Achievement of Selected Elementary Students
This study was conducted to examine whether spelling test scores could be used as predictors of reading achievement when compared to standardized achievement test scores. The subjects for the test were thirty third, fourth, and sixth grade students. The variables in this study were students' scores …
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A study of summer forgetting in spelling ability of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade pupils
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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The effects of an integrated whole language and phonics-based instructional spelling program on student spelling ability and self-concept
… phonics and whole language approach to teaching spelling to regular education and resource students. The sample included thirty-nine fourth grade students, which were split into an experimental and a control group. Students in the experimental group completed a spelling pretest and ten weeks of …
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Children with Dyslexia: Spelling as a Constraint on Writing Development
… with written language: namely, reading and spelling. To date, little research has been conducted to examine the role of spelling when writing and, in particular, in the writing of young children with dyslexia. This is surprising when considering that spelling is an active process used when …
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An Experiment in Spelling Using the Corrected Test Method
… of the author’s knowledge about the teaching of spelling and to measure the effects of the corrected test on spelling ability of seventh grade students.
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The Use of Mnemonic Training as a Strategy for Teaching Spelling to Learning Disabled Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grade Students
… potential differences in evaluated/applied spelling ability between learning disabled (LD) students instructed via a mnemonic approach versus those who received traditional instruction. Thirty-one 6th, 7th, and 8th grade LD students were divided into two groups—a mnemonic group of eight boys …
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Speling "Successful" Sucesfuly: Statistical Learning in Spelling
Many spelling errors in English are doubling errors, as when people are stumped by the double ‹l› in ‹trellis›. In Study 1, we tabulated statistical patterns with regards to doubling in English. In Study 2, we collected behavioral data to see if people were sensitive to these statistical …
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The effect of the Wilson Reading Program on spelling skills in an inclusive sixth grade setting
… Reading program as a method for instructing spelling rules and principles in an inclusive sixth grade setting. The subjects included eighteen sixth grade students, four special education and fourteen regular education students. Post testing results indicated that in 76% of all the students …
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An experiment to determine the relative advantage of improved spelling by typewriting as opposed to handwriting
The limited-instruction spelling course proved to be the best method of integrating spelling and typewriting instruction. The students achieved better results when they looked up the meanings of words and typed the words in sentences. Studying seven or eight words a day was more effective than …
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The influence of individual differences on reading in readers of consistent compared to inconsistent orthographies
… differ in terms of how consistently they reflect spelling-sound relationships, and research has found that this may lead to differences in naming (reading aloud) processes. Readers themselves differ from each other in terms of relevant task performance, such as nonword decoding ability, vocabulary …
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A Study of Effects of Direct Spelling Instruction on Spelling Achievement and Skills Acquisition
… was to examine and compare the effect of direct spelling instruction on both spelling achievement and acquisition of skills. To implement this study two groups of subjects were selected. The subjects were all participating in the summer reading practicum at Southwest Missouri State University. …
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Spelling attitudes and abilities of secondary students
… (<em>n</em> = 211) about the importance of spelling, which strategies they use to solve spelling problems, and the adequacy of spelling instruction at the high school level; b) assess the same group of seniors according to Ganske's developmental levels of spelling; and c) gauge the attitudes …
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The effects of a word study spelling program in a differentiated classroom
… was to determine if implementing a word study spelling program in a differentiated classroom could improve students' long-term retention of spelling words. This study compared a word study program with a more traditional spelling approach. The findings of the experiment indicated that no …
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The effectiveness of the Wilson Reading Program in improving spelling and decoding skills of a selected sample of special needs children
… a similar degree of difficulty with reading and spelling. Three other students in the self-contained classroom served as a control group.</p> <p>Pretests and posttests were administered to all five students in order to determine their levels of decoding and encoding prior to administration of the …
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Nature and prevalence of reading difficulties in the third grade : Lusaka rural and urban schools
… was used to assess verbal fluency in children. A spelling test consisting of words was also used to measure the children's spelling and writing skills. A passage story adapted from the grade three readers book was used to measure reading comprehension skills while the Panga Munthu Test (PMT) …
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Home-School Collaboration: A Case Study
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A Study to Ascertain the Merits of the Corrected Test and the Study-Test Spelling Methods
… the merits of the relatively new corrected test spelling method with the older, seemingly more widely-used study-test spelling method. The experiment was conducted to give the writer an overview of the different spelling methods so that an adequate spelling program may be conducted in the …
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