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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"spelling skills"”.
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An Experiment – Rapid Improvement in English Usage and Spelling Skills
For the purpose of this experiment the problem was defined as follows: graduate students at CWCE consist, in the main, of public school teachers and administrators. Their scores in the Cooperative English Test ranked them in the lower third compared with college seniors in representative teachers’ …
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Exploring the Effects of Text Messaging on the Spelling Skills of Ninth and 12th Grade Students
… criticized for a perceived negative impact on spelling skills of students and its increasing appearance in formal school papers. This paper presents a study of the effects of text messaging on the spelling skills of ninth and 12<sup>th</sup> grade students at a U.S. high school in a Chicago …
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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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The Effects of Embedded Phonological Awareness Training on the Reading and Spelling Skills of Kindergarten Students
… and read and a lack of phonological awareness skills is linked with reading difficulties. Previous research has shown phonological awareness training improves phonological awareness skills, as well as certain aspects of reading (such as word decoding) and spelling (spelling phonetically …
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The Effect of Cooperative Learning on the Spelling Skills, Self-Concept, and Locus of Control of Below Average Learners
… strategy was evaluated through changes in spelling scores, in self-concept and in locus of control. Further, the impact on boys and girls was monitored to determine if either gender would respond differently to this teaching approach. METHOD A non-equivalent control group design was used to …
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An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance
… and the effect of its excessive use on a user’s spelling capabilities and academic performance by using a single-factor, multi-level between subjects design (One-way ANOVA). The One way Anova was applied to SNS use (independent variable) and spelling and academic performance (dependent …
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A Study of Three Nine-Year Old Boys, Retarded in Reading, Who Were Taught Reading, Writing, and Spelling by a Remedial Teacher
… to the improvement of the reading, writing, and spelling skills of three boys, and to discover and alter, if possible, the factors contributing to the reading deficiency and lowered school achievement.</p>
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The Effects of a Student-Centered Approach to Spelling Instruction that Incorporates the Multiple Intelligences
… the influences of a student-centered approach to spelling instruction that incorporated the multiple intelligences. A goal of this study was to identify spelling strategies that students could choose to use independently while participating in everyday writing activities. Five third grade students …
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Understanding the Linguistically Vulnerable: Exploration of Early Literacy Skills of ELL Students in Calgary
… little research has been done to examine certain skills of ELL students, such as written expression. The purpose of this study was to explore contributing factors to ELL students’ writing quality. The present study gathered written samples from ELL students from Western Canadian elementary charter …
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The effectiveness of a multi-sensory phonological awareness and letter knowledge training programme for disadvantaged first graders
… awareness, letter knowledge, reading and spelling skills. The experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group on simple phonological awareness tasks such as segmenting the sounds in a word, letter knowledge and in their ability to read and spell real and pseudowords. …
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Examining the Efficacy of Combining Cover, Copy, Compare and Performance Feedback: A Randomized Controlled Trial
… writing quality is the acquisition of proficient spelling skills (Berninger, 1999). One intervention, Cover, Copy, Compare, has shown effectiveness in improving third-grade students’ spelling performance (Williams, 2017); and it has been found to be most effective when combined with another …
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Language Minority Learners' Spanish-Influenced Spelling Errors and Morphological Knowledge
… as a heritage language encourages predictable spelling errors as language-minority (LM) learners apply Spanish phoneme-grapheme correspondence rules to scaffold their emerging English spelling skills. These Spanish-influenced (SI) errors fade by around fourth grade, especially if LM learners …
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Literacy development in children with cerebral palsy
… difficulties with low scores in reading and spelling, and all the children had problems with handwriting. Standardised assessments showed that while the children had good verbal abilities, they had very low scores on a non-verbal test. The children with the most severe literacy difficulties …
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The impact of computer assisted instruction on sensory cognitive factors in literacy learning.
… instruction on the development of literacy skills. The effect of instructional methodologies designed to stimulate sensory processing (auditory, visual, and somatic sensory) through information processing activities was analyzed. A software program was designed to present instruction to …
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Growing phonological and morphological knowledge and improving spelling outcomes in Year 2 primary school children through Explicit Instruction and contextualised dictation
Using Explicit Instruction (EI) to teach spelling is controversial because teaching approaches vary considerably in the contemporary classroom. Teachers may privilege visual over linguistic strategies and include target words based around themes, rather than the phono-morphological structures of …