The author feels it is psychologically beneficial to permit ghetto children to spell phonetically before teaching them to use standard spellings. (AF)

Spelling must be taught from three vantage points: phonetic, linguistic, and mnemonic." Article contains practical suggestions on classroom techniques. (Author/SP)

The author gives a chart which is to facilitate communication about the spelling process. This chart shows the procedure a student must go through to spell a word correctly. (Author/MF)

Careful consideration should be given to general and specific objectives before initiating a spelling program. (JH)

Some ideas for enlivening spelling instruction. (JH)

Classroom spelling programs should grow out of the children's individual needs and include various writing opportunities. (JH)

Author recalls his grade school spelling fears. (SP)

Studies context as a significant aid to the learning and retention of words. (RB)

Report of some of the most recent information in the field as found in books, articles, and doctoral dissertations. (Author/RY)

Facing the dilemma of grading a child's honest expression of feeling and thought without degrading the child and squelching further expression. (Author/MB)

To determine the effect of proofreading on spelling, a study was conducted with middle- and upper-middle-class students in four sixth-grade classes in two schools in Austin, Texas. Two classes were used as control groups, and two as experimental groups. Teachers of both groups participated in the planning sessions to prepare 14 lessons with…

Although spelling instruction has traditionally treated almost every spelling word as requiring a separate learning act, recent research indicates that over 90% of American-English orthography actually is determined by a set of rules for unit phoneme-grapheme relationships, based with decreasing productivity upon three levels of…