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Invented Spelling Activities in Kindergarten: The Role of Instructional Scaffolding and Collaborative Learning
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Albuquerque, Ana; Martins, Margarida Alves – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2021
There is considerable evidence on the connections between emergent literacy-related skills in preschool-age and successful reading and writing. The purpose of this double-designed experimental/descriptive study was to analyse the impact of invented spelling activities on kindergarten children's spelling performance and to explore adult mediation…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Emergent Literacy, Spelling Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Invented Spelling Activities in Small Groups and Early Spelling and Reading
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Martins, Margarida Alves; Salvador, Liliana; Albuquerque, Ana; Silva, Cristina – Educational Psychology, 2016
Our aim was to assess the impact of an invented spelling programme conducted in small groups on children's written language acquisition in Portuguese. We expected the experimental group to have better post-test results than the control group in spelling and reading. Participants were 160 preschool-age children who were randomly divided into an…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Small Group Instruction, Written Language, Language Acquisition
Spelling and Learning Style in Children.
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Riding, R. J.; Tempest, J. – Educational Psychology, 1986
Seventy-two 11-year-old students were tested on 32 dictated words containing two levels of both visual and phonemic complexity. Students were grouped within sexes on their extraversion scores on the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory and quotients on the Raven's Matrices. Spelling performance was found to interact significantly with level of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades