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Studies of spelling are not particularly numerous in New Zealand, the 2 standard bibliographies listing no more than 20 completed during the last 50 years. All but two of these studies appeared...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article After three years of schooling, some primary students are behind expected levels for spelling achievement. This study investigated students’ own explanations of their developing understandings about...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A new series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from an aspect of their work over the years.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Spelling is an important aspect of literacy – but not something that children can “pick up” during reading or writing. Here are some practical suggestions for combining spelling with writing in the...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Careful examination of written stories reveals that poor spellers restrict their vocabulary and their syntax to avoid words they cannot spell, giving quite a wrong impression of their...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article 'The English cannot spell because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants - and not all of them - have any agreed speech value.' So...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Dyslexia and autism are both examples of cognitive deficits. You can think of these handicaps as 'holes in the mind.' Both may be encountered in mainstreamed or integrated classes ...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Computer programs are not a magic remedy for dyslexia. But they can be a very worthwhile teaching aid when you need many ways of reinforcing each teaching point. In this way the computer can add a...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Spelling research is making good progress. Two of the areas it is finding very fruitful are:
1 an examination of the words children write - and subsequently misspell;
2 investigation of how we...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Teachers who understand that spelling is a complex developmental process can help students acquire spelling competency. Initially, the teacher must recognize five stages of spelling development. Once...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
Set1983_2_010.pdf | Content type: Set article