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Ehri, Linnea C. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
Orthographic mapping (OM) involves the formation of letter-sound connections to bond the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of specific words in memory. It explains how children learn to read words by sight, to spell words from memory, and to acquire vocabulary words from print. This development is portrayed by Ehri (2005a) as a sequence of…
Descriptors: Maps, Spelling, Pronunciation, Memory
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Ehri, Linnea C.; Roberts, Kathleen T. – Child Development, 1979
First graders were taught to read words either in printed sentence contexts or printed singly on flash cards. Post-test scores indicated that context-trained children learned more about the semantic identities of printed words, while flash card-trained children could read the words faster and learned more about orthographic forms. (JMB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes