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Peer reviewedRoberts, Kathleen T.; Ehri, Linnea C. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1983
Skilled and less skilled beginning readers (n=54) were taught to read and define 10 printed pseudowords. Post-tests revealed that experimentals retaining spellings in memory as orthographic images remembered spellings better than controls who received comparable training without the memory component. (PN)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Memory
Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C.; Wilce, Lee S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Mnemonic value of spellings in a paired-associate sound learning task was examined in first and second graders. Learning was fastest when correct spellings were seen or imagined. The preferred interpretation was that spellings are effective because they provide readers with orthographic images for symbolizing and storing sounds in memory.…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Mnemonics
