Spelling Morphology
Spelling Morphology

Author: Dorit Diskin Ravid

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 144190588X

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Modern Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic language—its lexicon is rich in morphemes. This volume supplies the first in-depth psycholinguistic analysis of the interaction between morphological knowledge and spelling in Hebrew. It also examines how far this model can be applied to other languages. Anchored to a connectionist, cognitive, cross-linguistic and typological framework, the study accords with today’s perception of spelling as being much more than a mere technical skill. Contemporary psycholinguistic literature views spelling as a window on what people know about words and their structure. The strong correlation between orthographies and morphological units makes linking consistent grammatical and lexical representation and spelling units in speaker-writers a key research goal. Hebrew’s wealth of morphological structures, reflected in its written form, promotes morphological perception and strategies in those who speak and write it, adding vitality and relevance to this work.

Morph Mastery: A Morphological Intervention for Reading, Spelling and Vocabulary
Morph Mastery: A Morphological Intervention for Reading, Spelling and Vocabulary

Author: Louise Selby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1000400549

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Morph Mastery is an accessible, practical guide designed to support learners with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) who are struggling with spelling, reading and vocabulary. It is an effective, research-based and fun solution for when phonics-based teaching has run its course. Understanding the morphological regularities in English helps to support both spelling and reading comprehension, yet there are few practical interventions that take a morphological approach. Morph Mastery combines this exciting new approach with tried-and-tested teaching methods that work. The activities in this book follow three engaging ninja-like characters, Prefa, Root and Sufa, who represent the three core components of morphology (prefixes, root words and suffixes) and use their sceptres to craft words. Key features include: • Exciting and engaging activities and games, designed to be used by individuals or small groups • Detailed, curriculum-linked assessments, enabling specific target setting • Photocopiable and downloadable activity sheets and resources Written in a user-friendly tone, for teaching assistants, teachers and other professionals with little or no specialist knowledge, this book is a must for any school with struggling readers and writers aged 9–13.

Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties
Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties

Author: David A. Kilpatrick

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-08-10

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1118845404

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Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in-depth guide to reading assessment and intervention. It provides a detailed discussion of the nature and causes of reading difficulties, which will help develop the knowledge and confidence needed to accurately assess why a student is struggling. Readers will learn a framework for organizing testing results from current assessment batteries such as the WJ-IV, KTEA-3, and CTOPP-2. Case studies illustrate each of the concepts covered. A thorough discussion is provided on the assessment of phonics skills, phonological awareness, word recognition, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. Formatted for easy reading as well as quick reference, the text includes bullet points, icons, callout boxes, and other design elements to call attention to important information. Although a substantial amount of research has shown that most reading difficulties can be prevented or corrected, standard reading remediation efforts have proven largely ineffective. School psychologists are routinely called upon to evaluate students with reading difficulties and to make recommendations to address such difficulties. This book provides an overview of the best assessment and intervention techniques, backed by the most current research findings. Bridge the gap between research and practice Accurately assess the reason(s) why a student struggles in reading Improve reading skills using the most highly effective evidence-based techniques Reading may well be the most important thing students are taught during their school careers. It is a skill they will use every day of their lives; one that will dictate, in part, later life success. Struggling students need help now, and Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties shows how to get these students on track.

Word Morphology and Written Language Acquisition: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development in Different Orthographies
Word Morphology and Written Language Acquisition: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development in Different Orthographies

Author: Lynne G. Duncan

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2019-06-05

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 2889458326

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This Research Topic explores the processing of morphemes, the smallest units of language that bear meaning and that combine to form more complex words. The articles gathered under this Research Topic investigate typical and atypical morphological processing by children and adolescents in ten different languages. These articles provide cross-linguistic and cross-script evidence of the early sensitivity of children to the morphemic structure of words, irrespective of whether they are struggling readers or typically developing. All in all, the collection allows for a better understanding of how morphological processing skills develop, providing valuable clues as to how this competence can be used as a tool to improve literacy acquisition in struggling readers.

Morphological Processing and Literacy Development
Morphological Processing and Literacy Development

Author: Rachel Berthiaume

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-28

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1351858203

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Synthesizing a range of studies on morphological processing from the past 30 years, this edited collection presents the current state of knowledge on morphological processing and defines classroom practices to help students conceptualise the role of morphology in reading, spelling, and vocabulary development. Research has increasingly indicated the importance of morphological tasks in relation to reading, spelling, and vocabulary acquisition in the classroom. Chapter authors present the theoretical considerations guiding morphological processing research to date, address the use of morphology with reference to different populations of learners, and propose effective and innovative instructional strategies for integrating morphology in the classroom.

English Morphology for the Language Teaching Profession
English Morphology for the Language Teaching Profession

Author: Laurie Bauer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1000033430

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This highly accessible book presents an overview of English morphology for all those involved in the English-language teaching industry. For non-native learners, the ability to recognize and produce new words in appropriate circumstances is a challenging task, and knowledge of the word-building system of English is essential to effective language learning. This book clearly explains the morphology of English from the point of view of the non-native learner and shows how teachers and professors can instruct EFL students successfully with effective materials. Covering the scope of the task of teaching English morphology specifically to non-native learners of English, bestselling authors Bauer and Nation provide a range of strategies and tactics for straightforward instruction, and demonstrate how teachers of English as a foreign language can easily integrate learning of the morphological system into their language courses. This book helps teachers and learners make sensible decisions about where to focus deliberate attention, what to be careful about, and what not to be concerned about. It offers a range of shortcuts, tips and tricks for teaching, and gives detailed practical information on topics including: Sound and spelling Possessives Comparative and superlative Past tense and past participle Making nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and words with prefixes Learned word-formation. This book is essential and practical reading for graduate students on English-language teaching courses, preservice teachers, consultants, practitioners, researchers and scholars in ELT.

Children's Reading and Spelling
Children's Reading and Spelling

Author: Terezinha Nunes

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0631234020

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This book extends models of early literacy, analyzing how children’s reading and spelling skills develop throughout their school career. An account of how a child’s reading and spelling develop which goes beyond the early years Shows that there are radical changes in the way children read and spell as they get older Describes a new theory about the learning that goes on in the later stages of reading and spelling Makes clear the educational implications of this theory The authors' research has previously contributed to the 'literacy hour' – a government initiative to improve the teaching of literacy skills in UK schools

Morphological Aspects of Language Processing
Morphological Aspects of Language Processing

Author: Laurie Beth Feldman

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1134778333

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It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that comprise a sentence. However, words and sentences are organized with respect to morphological as well as phonological components. It is thus unfortunate that the morpheme has received relatively little attention in the experimental literature, either from psychologists or linguists. Due to recent methodological developments, however, now is an opportune time to address morphological issues. In the experimental literature, there is a tendency to examine various psycholinguistic processes in English and then to assume that the account given applies with equal significance to English and to other languages. Written languages differ, however, in the extent to which they capture phonological as contrasted with morphological units. Moreover, with respect to the morpheme, languages differ in the principle by which morphemes are connected to form new words. This volume focuses on morphological processes in word recognition and reading with an eye toward comparing morphological processes with orthographic and phonological processes. Cross-language comparisons are examined as a tool with which to probe universal linguistic processes, and a variety of research methodologies are described. Because it makes the experimental literature in languages other than English more accessible, this book is expected to be of interest to many readers. It also directs attention to the subject of language processing in general -- an issue which is of central interest to cognitive psychologists and linguists as well as educators and clinicians.

A Creative Approach to Teaching Spelling: The what, why and how of teaching spelling, starting with phonics
A Creative Approach to Teaching Spelling: The what, why and how of teaching spelling, starting with phonics

Author: Kate Robinson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-08-11

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1472930118

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A Creative Approach to Teaching Spelling is packed full of fun and effective multi-sensory games and activities that build phonic skills as a key strategy for spelling. In addition, there are games that develop further strategies to supplement phonic skills. Preceding the games is a summary of major developments in the teaching of spelling over the last forty years. This leads to an analysis of the current research and approaches on which the games are based. With the knowledge, skills and ideas offered, teachers can enhance the growing range of phonic-based spelling programmes currently used within schools, or they can build engaging spelling programmes of their own to meet the specific groups or individual pupils. The games and activities will help to develop and embed children's phonological awareness, phonic knowledge and auditory memory.

Unlocking Literacy
Unlocking Literacy

Author: Marcia K. Henry

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781598570748

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The second edition of this bestselling textbook arms pre-K to middle-school teachers with the most recent developments in reading research--and shows them how to apply their knowledge in the classroom to help all students learn.;