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Article: The Strategic Spelling Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities: The Results of Two Studies.
- Article from:
- Journal of Instructional Psychology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
- Author:
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This study reports the results of two experiments which focused on the use of spelling strategies by students with learning disabilities and the relative effectiveness of two different approaches for teaching spelling. In experiment 1, qualitative research method was employed with four elementary students with learning disabilities to document the spelling strategies used during an structured interview, a formal spelling test and an informal writing activity. The data revealed 4 categories of spelling strategies: (1) rule-based, (2) multiple, (3) resource-based, and (4) brute force. Patterns that emerged from the data suggested that students with learning disabilities ...