Children with dyslexia are believed to have very poor phonological skills for which they
compensate, to some extent, through relatively well-developed knowledge of letter patterns …

This article outlines a theory of developmental spelling that has evolved from qualitative
research on children's invented spelling. We show how an analysis of students' invented …

Abstract Seventy-eight 8-to-12-year-old children (34 ReadingDisabled; 31 Attention-Deficit-
Hyperactivity-Disordered; and 13diagnosed normal controls) were given a battery oftests …

The purpose of this study was to test whether the application and transfer of segmentation
and letter knowledge to reading could be encouraged by teaching spelling alongside code …

To investigate the development of phonological and visual skills used in spelling, 420
children between the ages of 6 and 16 completed the spelling dictation test of the Wide …

This study, like the others in this volume, is rooted in the clinical work, insight, and theoretical
teaching of Edmund Henderson. When I first came to the McGuffey Reading Center, I was …

Spelling researchers in the past have disagreed about the meaning of spelling errors for the
diagnosis of dyslexia. Many studies have reported that spelling errors of individuals with …

Traditional spelling instruction continues in the classroom, for the most part as an isolated
event out of touch with the other language arts and uninformed by the level of word …

This article presents an approach to word study instruction, wordsorting, that is based on
recent spelling research. The first section reviews findings from research that support the …

Foreign language learning is a progressive endeavor. Whatever the method, the learner
should advance from one point to another, constantly improving. Growing proficiency entails …