There's More to Children's Spelling than the Errors They Make: Strategic and Automatic Processes for One-Syllable Words

• Published in: Journal of educational psychology Vol. 90; no. 3; p. 492
• Main Authors: Steffler, Dorothy J, Varnhagen, Connie K, Friesen, Christine K, Treiman, Rebecca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.09.1998
• Subjects: Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Memory; Protocol Analysis; Spelling; Spelling Instruction

Examining self-reported verbal protocols and online measures of spelling latencies for 93 elementary school students showed that children seem to use a relatively sequential read-out from long-term memory when directly retrieving a spelling, but they use a consonant pair strategy for final consonant...