This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses planning and using interactive word walls to support science and reading instruction. Many classrooms have word walls displaying vocabulary that students have learned in class. Word walls serve as visual scaffolds to support instruction. To…

Children with spelling difficulties are limited in their participation in all written school activities. We aimed to investigate the influence of word-prediction as a tool on spelling accuracy and typing speed. To this end, we selected 80 Grade 4-6 children with spelling difficulties in a school for special needs to participate in a research…

Investigated the independent and interactive effects of contextual and definitional information on vocabulary learning. German students of English received either a text with unfamiliar English words or their monolingual English dictionary entries. A third group received both. Information about word context is crucial to understanding meaning. (44…

A study of selected variables which have an effect upon achievement in shorthand dictation is the focus of this report. The relationship between competency in shorthand accuracy and achievement in shorthand dictation, is studied in Part I. Results of three word-list tests of 200 words each, administered to 135 students, indicated that success in…

In an effort to determine whether the Dolch list of basic sight words continues to reflect the majority of the words in basic readers, this study was undertaken to calculate the percentage of Dolch words in four basic reader programs published since 1970. This would make it possible to decide whether the Dolch list is still viable for recently…

This document reports on a color-coding innovation designed to improve the spelling ability of high school seniors. This color-coded system is based on two assumptions: that color will appeal to the students and that there are three principal reasons for misspelling. Two groups were chosen for the experiments. A basic list of spelling demons was…

Discusses findings on the lexical competence of students who are not native-speakers of English but who have been through an education system in which that language is the medium of instruction. The data indicate the existence of a problem related to use rather than to inadequate knowledge of word-meaning. Traditional criteria for item selection…