Developed as a forerunner to "Spell-Write: An Aid to Writing, Spelling, and Word Study," this student workbook includes words starting with each letter of the alphabet and spaces for students' words. The workbook also presents words related to 13 topics (including "colours,""numbers," and "my family") using…

The use of the stanine scale to control some of the sources of error in converting letter grades to a numerical scale before they can be added or averaged is described. (Author/RK)

This booklet presents a simplified and improved method of writing or spelling English, which simply uses the standard 26-letter alphabet to spell words the way they are pronounced. The booklet criticizes the conventional English spelling system as unnecessarily difficult, inconsistent, and illogical and suggests that easy-to-learn "Basic…

A workbook in the Roman alphabet for Hmong speakers begins with exercises in basic shape recognition and reproduction and contains a variety of exercises in printing, recognizing, and combining upper and lower case letters. (MSE)

The ability of children during the first month of kindergarten to correctly recognize and identify the letters of the alphabet was examined. A total of 444 children were tested and only the data from children who could correctly recognize one or more, but less than 26, letters were analyzed. Children were grouped according to the number of letters…

Shows that an errorless discrimination training (EDT) group made significantly fewer errors during instruction in learning the letters of the alphabet than did a reinforcement-extinction group. (RB)

This two-part Igbo/English-English/Igbo dictionary has been prepared primarily for speakers of English who have acquired at least a minimum of competence in speaking Igbo, and a knowledge of the major structural patterns. The variety of Igbo represented is referred to by the authors as "compromise Igbo" and is based on the speech of numerous…

A computer program to convert the orthography of English words to phoneme equivalents was developed. For purposes of this study, a grapheme was defined as the minimum unit of orthography to which a segmental phoneme, a unitary phoneme combination, or a nonphoneme would be associated. An informational processing model for automatic reading was then…

The format of this Tibetan-English dictionary includes the following: (1) after the Tibetan word or phrase, variant spellings are noted in parentheses; (2) irregular past, future, or imperative forms of the verb are also given in parentheses; (3) English definitions are separated into categories by semicolons; (4) verbal forms in English are…

Hypothesizes that writing systems affect cognitive strategies at a deeper level of human information-processing than is generally accepted in present day psychology. Discusses why almost all varieties of alphabets, syllabaries, and consonantal systems have been written to the left while vocalic systems have been written to the right. (JD)

Middle and secondary school students who continue to display reversal problems despite intervention should be taught to compensate. Compensation can be based on the student's common error problems. (CL)

Among findings from studies involving 48 9-10 year-olds classified in three dyslexic subgroups were that there were no modality of presentation-specific recall differences among groups and that all three subgroups made significantly more errors than controls in the condition in which it was essential to activate phonetic representations of…

This article offers a short history of spelling reform and reviews current arguments pro and con. (SB)

Letter recognition errors may be the result of children going through normal states of development. (Author)