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Improving the Generalization of Sound/Symbol Knowledge

Teaching Spelling to Kindergarten Children with Disabilities

Rollanda E. O'Connor

University of Pittsburgh

Joseph R. Jenkins

University of Washington

The purpose of this study was to test whether the application and transfer of segmentation and letter knowledge to reading could be encouraged by teaching spelling alongside code-based reading instruction. We formed five matched pairs of children with developmental delays based on their progress on kindergarten reading lessons in Reading Mastery I (Engelmann & Bruner, 1988) and randomly assigned one of each pair to an experimental treatment of 20 ten-minute spelling lessons and one to a reading control group that practiced reading the same words. Children in the spelling treatment significantly improved their spelling and word reading performance over the control group, but did not perform significantly better on a measure of phoneme segmentation. Our results suggest that the children who practiced forming letter representations of spoken words developed more complete generalizations of their current knowledge, which facilitated learning to read words.

The Journal of Special Education, Vol. 29, No. 3, 255-275 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/002246699502900301
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