Frequency Analyses of Prephonological Spellings as Predictors of Success in Conventional Spelling

Autor/inn/en	Kessler, Brett; Pollo, Tatiana Cury; Treiman, Rebecca; Cardoso-Martins, Claudia
Titel	Frequency Analyses of Prephonological Spellings as Predictors of Success in Conventional Spelling
Quelle	In: Journal of Learning Disabilities, 46 (2013) 3, S.252-259 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2194
DOI	10.1177/0022219412449440
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Portuguese; Preschool Children; Monte Carlo Methods; Spelling; Writing Skills; Elementary School Students; Emergent Literacy; Spelling Instruction; Alphabets; Private Schools; Phonemic Awareness; Phonological Awareness; Brazil; Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Portugiesischunterricht; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Monte-Carlo-Methode; Schreibweise; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Frühleseunterricht; Orthographieunterricht; Rechtschreibunterricht; Buchstabenschrift; Private school; Privatschule; Brasilien
Abstract	The present study explored how children's prephonological writing foretells differential learning outcomes in primary school. The authors asked Portuguese-speaking preschool children in Brazil (mean age 4 year 3 months) to spell 12 words. Monte Carlo tests were used to identify the 31 children whose writing was not based on spellings or sounds of the target words. Two and a half years later, the children took a standardized spelling test. The more closely the digram (two-letter sequence) frequencies in the preschool task correlated with those in children's books, the better scores the children had in primary school, and the more preschoolers used letters from their own name, the lower their subsequent scores. Thus, preschoolers whose prephonological writing revealed attentiveness to the statistical properties of text subsequently performed better in conventional spelling. These analytic techniques may help in the early identification of children at risk for spelling difficulties. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10