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Evaluating Teaching Efficiency in Reading and Spelling Instruction
Reading and spelling are essential skills for a student’s educational success. The current literature on spelling instruction has examined a variety of spelling modalities, but has never directly compared written versus oral spelling. There are theoretical and empirical indications that either …
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The Effects of Embedded Phonological Awareness Training on the Reading and Spelling Skills of Kindergarten Students
… awareness is the ability to attend to and recognize the sound structure of a language. This skill is known to be important for learning to spell and read and a lack of phonological awareness skills is linked with reading difficulties. Previous research has shown phonological awareness …
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Dyslexpert: the development and evaluation of an expert system for the diagnosis of reading and spelling problems
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PHONOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO READING AND SPELLING IN ENGLISH: A COMPARISON OF ENGLISH-L1, MANDARIN-L1 AND MALAY-L1 BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… ACQUISITION DEPENDS ON ORAL LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND IS INFLUENCED BY CROSS-LINGUISTIC FACTORS (BIALYSTOK, 2002). PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY IS ASSOCIATED WITH VOCABULARY ACQUISITION (GATHERCOLE ET AL., 1992), AND READING (GOSWAMI & BRYANT, 1990) AND SPELLING DEVELOPMENT (BROWN & HULME, 1996), YET FEW …
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Context-Free Word Recognition of Skilled and Less-Skilled Spellers
… children, defined as demonstrating adequate reading comprehension but performing below grade level in spelling, was matched for reading comprehension with a group of children who performed adequately in reading and spelling. On a test of context-free word recognition, the dysgraphic group …
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Teachers of students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing: Change in reading instruction through collaborative professional development
Students who are (D/HH) have a history of low-reading proficiency. Factors external to the student, such as the reading and spelling instruction the child receives once he or she enters school, are thought to be contributors to low-reading proficiency (Limbrick, McNaughton, & Clay, 1992; Lytle & …
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The struggles, successes and disappointments of carrying out Action Research: A reflective analysis of a 25 week syllable intervention across two schools focusing on improving reading and spelling in young children aged between five and nine years old.
This thesis chronicles the successes, struggles and disappointments of carrying out Action Research with 15 members of staff and 300 children from various year groups across two schools. The research centres around a 25 week intervention aimed at improving syllable awareness with the view it might …
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Literacy development in children with cerebral palsy
… were an opportunistic sample from two schools, and were initially selected on the basis that they had typical abilities in other school subjects. A review of the literature pertaining to the development of literacy and related aspects of cognitive development in typically-developing children and …
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The effectiveness of a multi-sensory phonological awareness and letter knowledge training programme for disadvantaged first graders
… of a multi-sensory phonological awareness and letter knowledge programme for disadvantaged first graders. One control group and one experimental group, each consisting of 20 children, were matched for age, gender, school readiness, socio-economic status and phonological awareness. …
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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
<p>The Wilson Reading Program was designed by Barbara Wilson and published in 1988 for the first time. It was originally designed for students diagnosed with dyslexia, but its focus has been expanded to include struggling readers and spellers who are below their classmates. Wilson is based on the …
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Strategies for Teaching Literacy
How do students learn to read and spell? How do they best construct meaning from literacy lessons? This study discusses a balanced approach to literacy education examining the use of phonetic and whole-language approaches to instruction. The author examines the benefits of teaching reading and …
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An investigation of the theories relating to developmental dyslexia and their application in assessment and remediation
… study has been to provide both a theoretical and practical framework for dealing with developmental dyslexia within mainstream schooling. Thus, the firat section summarizes current genetic, neurological and cognitive findings relating to the problem. By combining this theoretical perspective …
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Phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge in the acquisition of literacy skills
… the relationship between phonological awareness and the acquisition of literacy was investigated in a longitudinal study of 29 children during their first two years at school. At the beginning of the study, when all children were nonreaders, syllable awareness was the strongest predictor of later …
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The Effect of Orthographic Mapping, Context, and Word Class on Sight Word Learning for Native and Nonnative English-Speakers
… in orthographic mapping better support flashcard reading over a control group, 2.) Does providing meaning clarifications during flashcard reading better support learning over not providing meanings, 3.) Does grammatical word class affect word learning, and 4.) Do these manipulations affect word …
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Disciplinary Dialogues: Examining the influence of subject on classroom dialogue, activity type and learning outcomes in English primary schools
… observations of English, mathematics and science lessons in primary schools in England. The Cambridge Dialogue Analysis Scheme (Vrikki et al., 2019) was used to gather the frequency of key dialogue features in 72 lessons (ages 10-11). Statistical analysis identified that reasoned …
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App-based intervention for children with reading difficulties : a description of five cases
… (app)-based intervention for five children with reading difficulties. All participants were required to have a grade one reading level. Each participant’s language and literacy profiles are detailed in accordance with developmental and information processing models, and intervention was designed …
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Children with Dyslexia: Spelling as a Constraint on Writing Development
… difficulty 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 …
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The Effects of Chinese and Spanish Writing Systems on L2 English Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition
… vary in how they relate graphemes to phonology and meaning. Consequently, each writing system makes unique demands on native speakers, resulting in different cognitive processes. This research examines the visual and phonological processes used by native Spanish and Chinese speakers and how …
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An evaluation of the cerebellar deficit hypothesis of developmental dyslexia
… learning disorder affecting other sensory, motor and cognitive functions. The cerebellar deficit hypothesis, proposes that, due to mild cerebellar dysfunction, dyslexic individuals demonstrate a general automatisation deficit on both motor and cognitive tasks. Individuals with cerebellar damage …
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Improving Self-Efficacy and Imagery Ability with a Poly-Sensory Video and Mg-M Imagery Intervention within Division 1 Female Soccer Players
… as well through the incorporation of modeling and initiating thoughts of scenarios and tasks that the athlete is trying to image. It may also enhance vividness of the environment as well as utilize sources of self-efficacy. While studies have demonstrated improvements in self-efficacy through …