The Impact of Supplemental Handwriting and Spelling Instruction with First Grade Students Who Do Not Acquire Transcription Skills as Rapidly as Peers: A Randomized Control Trial

Autor/inn/en	Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R.; Adkins, Mary
Titel	The Impact of Supplemental Handwriting and Spelling Instruction with First Grade Students Who Do Not Acquire Transcription Skills as Rapidly as Peers: A Randomized Control Trial
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 31 (2018) 6, S.1273-1294 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-018-9822-0
Schlagwörter	Handwriting; Spelling Instruction; Phonological Awareness; Accuracy; Vocabulary Development; Sentence Structure; Teaching Methods; Statistical Analysis; Writing Instruction; Achievement Gains; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Grade 1; Elementary School Students; Randomized Controlled Trials; Instructional Effectiveness; Comparative Analysis; Supplementary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Handschrift; Orthographieunterricht; Rechtschreibunterricht; Wortschatzarbeit; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Statistische Analyse; Schreibunterricht; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Unterrichtserfolg; Ergänzungsunterricht
Abstract	The impact of supplemental handwriting and spelling instruction on learning to write was examined in an experimental study with first grade students who were not acquiring these skills as rapidly as their classmates. Thirty students (16 boys, 14 girls) were randomly assigned to a handwriting and spelling instructional condition or a phonological awareness instructional control condition. Students in each condition received 16 h of one-on-one instruction. The treatment condition was designed to improve children's handwriting fluency, handwriting legibility, spelling accuracy, and knowledge of spelling patterns. In comparison to students in the phonological awareness control condition, students who received supplemental handwriting and spelling instruction made greater gains in handwriting fluency, handwriting legibility, and spelling accuracy. The treatment condition also resulted in greater gains in sentence construction fluency and composition vocabulary, but did not statistically enhance composition length or composition quality. These findings provide partial support for the theoretical proposition that text transcription skills are causally related to writing. Further, this study demonstrates that explicit and supplemental handwriting and spelling instruction can play an important role in teaching writing to young children who acquire text transcription skills more slowly than their peers. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01