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Teaching Spelling in the Primary Grades: A National Survey of Instructional Practices and Adaptations
Steve Graham,Paul Morphy,Karen R. Harris,Barbara Fink-Chorzempa,Bruce Saddler,Susan Moran,Linda H. Mason +6 more
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The authors conducted a survey with primary grade teachers across the United States to examine their instructional practices in spelling and the types of adaptations they made for struggling spellers, finding that almost every teacher surveyed reported teaching spelling, and the vast majority of respondents implemented a complex and multifaceted instructional program that applied a variety of research supported procedures.Abstract:
Primary grade teachers randomly selected from across the United Sates completed a survey (N = 168) that examined their instructional practices in spelling and the types of adaptations they made for struggling spellers. Almost every single teacher surveyed reported teaching spelling, and the vast majority of respondents implemented a complex and multifaceted instructional program that applied a variety of research-supported procedures. Although some teachers were sensitive to the instructional needs of weaker spellers and reported making many different adaptations for these students, a sizable minority of teachers (42%) indicated they made few or no adaptations. In addition, the teachers indicated that 27% of their students experienced difficulty with spelling, calling into question the effectiveness of their instruction with these children.read more
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Writing to Read: A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Writing and Writing Instruction on Reading.
Steve Graham,Michael Hebert +1 more
TL;DR: In a meta-analysis of true and quasi-experiments, Graham and Herbert as discussed by the authors presented evidence that writing about material read improves students' comprehension of it; teaching students how to write improves their reading comprehension, reading fluency, and word reading.
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Longitudinal Relationships of Levels of Language in Writing and between Writing and Reading in Grades 1 to 7.
TL;DR: In this paper, longitudinal structural equation modeling was used to evaluate longitudinal relationships across adjacent grade levels 1 to 7 for levels of language in writing (Model 1, subword letter writing, word spelling, and text composing) or writing and reading (Model 2, sub-word word writing and word spelling and reading; Model 3, word reading and reading, text composing and comprehending).
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Teaching Writing to Elementary Students in Grades 4–6: A National Survey
Jennifer K. Gilbert,Steve Graham +1 more
TL;DR: This paper surveyed a sample of elementary teachers in grades 4-6 from across the United States and found that almost two-thirds of the teachers reported that the teacher education courses they took in college provided them with little preparation to teach writing, and they also reported that they teach writing for only 15 minutes a day and their students spend just 25 minutes per day writing texts of paragraph length or longer.
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Does Spelling Instruction Make Students Better Spellers, Readers, and Writers? A Meta-Analytic Review.
Stephen Graham,Tanya Santangelo +1 more
TL;DR: The authors conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of experimental and quasi-experimental studies to address the claims that spelling should not be directly or formally taught as such instruction is not effective or efficient.
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Almost 30 Years of Writing Research: Making Sense of It All with The Wrath of Khan
Steve Graham,Karen R. Harris +1 more
TL;DR: This paper present an ongoing research program in the area of writing, which has focused on students with learning disabilities (LD) and other struggling writers, but has also concentrated more broadly on issues involving writing development and general writing instruction.
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Beginning to read : thinking and learning about print
TL;DR: Marilyn Adams proposes that phonies can work together with the "whole language" approach to teaching reading and provides an integrated treatment of the knowledge and processes involved in skillful reading, the issues surrounding their acquisition, and the implications for reading instruction.
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New methods for the analysis of change
Linda M. Collins,Aline G. Sayer +1 more
TL;DR: Differential Structural Equation Modeling of Intraindividual Variability - Steven M. Boker Toward a Coherent Framework for Comparing Trajectories of Individual Change - Stephen W. Raudenbush.
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Modeling longitudinal and multilevel data: Practical issues, applied approaches, and specific examples.
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-stage approach to multilevel Structural Equation models is proposed for Longitudinal Data Analysis, and a Latent Transition Analysis is used as a way of testing models of stage-sequential change in Longitudinal data.
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