Students with writing difficulties and learning disabilities struggle with many aspects of the
writing process, including use of sentence-level skills. This literature review summarizes …

This review examines the literature on how to teach kindergarten children with reading and
writing difficulties how to write. Specifically, research on handwriting instruction, spelling …

The contribution of handwriting to learning to write was examined in an experimental
training study involving beginning writers with and without an identified disability. First-grade …

In this chapter the authors review 12 years of research on the prevention of spelling and
writing problems. They find that early intervention aimed at teaching handwriting or spelling …

We present results of a meta-analysis on writing interventions for students with learning
disabilities and draw implications for practice. 13 studies designed to teach students with …

This intervention study tested whether invented spelling plays a causal role in learning to
read. Three groups of kindergarten children (mean age= 5 years 7 months) participated in a …

An overview of research topics and findings from an interdisciplinary, programmatic line of
research on writing over the past 25 years is presented. The cross–sectional assessment …

1 The Building Blocks of Learning: A Framework for Understanding Classroom Learning and
Behavior......................................................... 3 2 Theoretical Foundations …

Given that affective and cognitive processes interact in writing, it is important that
interventions for developing writing ability focus both on strategies for developing motivation …

Don't Neglect Their Handwriting slip from memory. Any time you have to hunt for the next
character, your memory will be taxed further, resulting in even more of your ideas being …