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Torrance, Mark; Arrimada, María; Gardner, Sarah – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Written composition requires handwriting, spelling, and text planning skills, all largely learned through school instruction. Students' rate of learning to compose text in their first months at school will depend, in part, on their literacy-related abilities at school start. These effects have not previously been explored. Aim: We…
Descriptors: Young Children, Grade 1, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
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Puliatte, Alison; Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The relationship between 2nd and 3rd grade teachers' linguistic knowledge and spelling instructional practices and their students' spelling gains from fall to spring was examined. Second grade (N = 16) and 3rd grade (N = 16) teachers were administered an instructional practices survey and a linguistic knowledge test. Total scores on the two…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Scores, Phonemes
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Wilson-Fowler, Elizabeth B.; Apel, Kenn – Journal of Literacy Research, 2015
The purpose of this study was twofold: to create a measure of morphological awareness with college students and to examine effects of morphological awareness on literacy abilities. Three morphological awareness measures, and spelling, word reading, and sentence comprehension tasks were administered to 214 undergraduate college students. Item…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Literacy, Morphology (Languages), Undergraduate Students