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Download full textNicholson, Mary-Jo S. – 1996
A study compared the progress of children encouraged to use inventive spelling with those encouraged to use traditional spelling in their creative writing. It was hypothesized that there would not be a significant difference in the writing samples produced in terms of their length or degree of elaboration. Participants were two second-grade…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creative Writing, Invented Spelling, Primary Education
Peer reviewedBruck, Maggie; Teiman, Rebecca; Caravolas, Marketa; Genesee, Fred; Cassar, Marie – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
The spelling skills of grade three children who had received whole-language instruction since they began to learn to read were compared with those of grade three children attending a phonics program. Overall, the phonics group produced more accurate word spellings than the whole-language group. In addition, the phonics children's spelling of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Graphemes, Invented Spelling
