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Peer reviewedUhry, Joanna K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1999
Examines the relationship between ability to invent spellings and ability to finger-point read memorized text in 109 kindergartners in whole-language classrooms. Finds that letter name knowledge and phonemic awareness account for ability in finger-point reading, but that invented spelling, because it requires the left-to-right alphabetic principle…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Finger Spelling, Invented Spelling, Kindergarten
