LinguisticsPsychology

Learning To Read and Learning To Spell: Two Sides of a Coin.

L. Ehri

2000TOPICS IN LANGUAGE DISORDERS

DOI: 10.1097/00011363-200020030-00005

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Learning to read and spell words share similar acquisition processes and rely on the same knowledge sources, such as the alphabetic system and word memory.

Abstract

Learning to read words and learning to spell words are closely related. Both follow a similar course of acquisition. Both rely on the same knowledge sources—knowledge about the alphabetic system, and memory for the spellings of specific words—that develop together and are reciprocally related. Corre

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EHRI, L. Learning to read and learning to spell: Two sides of a coin. TOPICS IN LANGUAGE DISORDERS, 2000, 20: 19–36.