What Makes a Good Speller?.

Marino, Jacqueline L.

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ERIC Number: EJ227704

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1980-Feb

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What Makes a Good Speller?

Marino, Jacqueline L.

Language Arts, v57 n2 p173-77 Feb 1980

Describes an informal study that yielded information about differences between good and poor sixth-grade spellers in their awareness that spelling involves prediction strategies and in their awareness of letter frequencies, pattern frequencies, and positional constraints on spelling. Outlines a few implications for spelling instruction. (GT)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Games, Elementary Education, High Achievement, Language Patterns, Language Research, Low Achievement, Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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