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Treiman, Rebecca; Cassar, Marie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Examines young children's ability to use simple morphological relations among words as a source of information about the words' spelling. Found that children used morphological relations among words only to a small extent. Suggests that although phonology plays an important role in early spelling, young children can also use other sources of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Error Analysis (Language)
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Bruck, Maggie; Teiman, Rebecca; Caravolas, Marketa; Genesee, Fred; Cassar, Marie – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
The spelling skills of grade three children who had received whole-language instruction since they began to learn to read were compared with those of grade three children attending a phonics program. Overall, the phonics group produced more accurate word spellings than the whole-language group. In addition, the phonics children's spelling of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Graphemes, Invented Spelling