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Limpo, Teresa; Parente, Naiana; Alves, Rui A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study used a multiple-probe design across three participants to test the effectiveness of a handwriting intervention for fifth graders (age 10-11) displaying less handwriting fluency than their peers, but without spelling disorders. The 5-h handwriting intervention provided students with explicit instruction and intensive practice in writing…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Alphabets
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Tüm, Gülden – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
Writing is the most difficult language skill to be learned and applied by learners of Turkish as a foreign language (TFL) because their native, foreign, and target language(s) might have different linguistic properties and even alphabets. Even they may come from different language families that influence TFL learners to have syntactic, lexical,…
Descriptors: Turkish, Writing Instruction, Alphabets, Writing Skills
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Taysi, Esra Karakus – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this study is to consider the Turkish learning situations of the 16 Arab-origin students learning Turkish at TÖMER subordinate to a state university in the Aegean region from the perspectives of both students and the teachers who teach them Turkish and investigate their language learning experiences from many perspectives. In order…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Arabs, Turkish, Second Language Learning
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Bradley, Karen Sue; Bradley, Jack – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2014
In recent years, the popularity of alphabet books has spread into older grades, as they address a variety of themes and can be used across disciplines. Their complexity can stimulate thinking and offer a world of possibilities in the area of research. Students of all ages are motivated to create an alphabet book on a self-selected topic. The…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Books, Childrens Literature, Teaching Methods
Pollard, Rebecca S. – Western Publishing House, 1891
This Manual provides the foundation for a reading and spelling course which avoids use of the phonic method. Instead of teaching the word as a whole and afterward subjecting it to phonic analysis, this Synthetic Method takes the sounds of the letters for the starting point, and with these sounds lay a foundation firm and broad, upon which is built…
Descriptors: Spelling, Teaching Methods, Phonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Kevis, David E. – 1972
The work itself should help a person who is going to teach reading and writing. Practical suggestions are offered in the final two chapters, while the opening three give intellectual perspectives. A theme binds the work of letting the consciousness of writing as a visual system be increased and of breaking the spell by which letter phonetics can…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Articulation (Speech), Diachronic Linguistics, Language Skills