The “How to” Guide to Spelling Assessment

Brimo, Danielle

doi:10.1044/lle20.4.129

Perspect Lang Learn Educ

2013

DOI: 10.1044/lle20.4.129

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The “How to” Guide to Spelling Assessment

Danielle Brimo

Abstract: A spelling assessment is used to determine a student’s baseline spelling percentage,potential intervention goals, and, ultimately, the student’s spelling progress. Additionally,a spelling assessment can provide information about a student’s linguistic awarenessabilities such as phonemic awareness, orthographic pattern awareness, mentalgraphemic representations, and morphological awareness. In this paper, a case exampleis presented to describe the spelling assessment and analysis of spelling errors toultimately… Show more

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It Might Not Be “Just Artic”: The Case for the Single Sound Error

Farquharson

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore the ways in which children with mild speech sound disorders (SSDs)—that is, single sound errors—may be at risk for difficulties with phonological awareness, decoding, spelling, and social–emotional well-being. Conclusions SSDs comprise a group of children who have difficulty in consistently and correctly producing 1 or more phonemes in their ambient language. Presently, there is a concerning trend with respect to service provision for children who have only a few—or only 1—sounds in error. That is, these children may not receive services at all. This practice is problematic, because it assumes that children with a single sound in error are not at risk for or experiencing any related educational difficulties. However, research supports connections between SSDs, including single sound errors, and decoding, spelling, and social–emotional deficits. This article aims to make the case for the single sound error—sometimes it is not “just artic.” Clinical recommendations for assessment, treatment, and advocacy are included.

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It Might Not Be “Just Artic”: The Case for the Single Sound Error

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2019

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Multilinguistic Components of Spelling: An Overview

Barber

2013

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Spelling is a window into a student's individual language system and, therefore, canprovide clues into the student's understanding, use, and integration of underlyinglinguistic skills. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) should be involved in improvingstudents' literacy skills, including spelling, though frequently available measures ofspelling do not provide adequate information regarding critical underlying linguistic skillsthat contribute to spelling. This paper outlines a multilinguistic, integrated model of wordstudy (Masterson & Apel, 2007) that highlights the important influences of phonemicawareness, orthographic pattern awareness, semantic awareness, morphologicalawareness and mental graphemic representations on spelling. An SLP can analyze anindividual's misspellings to identify impairments in specific linguistic components andthen develop an individualized, appropriate intervention plan tailored to a child's uniquelinguistic profile, thus maximizing intervention success.

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Word Study: A Multilinguistic Approach for Spelling Instruction

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This paper describes the multilinguistic spelling assessment and treatment protocol for aseventh-grade male student using a collaborative approach between a speech-languagepathologist and librarians. Working together, the team used internet search tools toprovide authentic reading and writing materials for generalization of acquired word studyskills. Specific goals and activities were tailored to meet the student's needs byintegrating 5 linguistic awareness components of word study instruction.

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The “How to” Guide to Spelling Assessment

Cited by 5 publications

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It Might Not Be “Just Artic”: The Case for the Single Sound Error

It Might Not Be “Just Artic”: The Case for the Single Sound Error

Multilinguistic Components of Spelling: An Overview

Word Study: A Multilinguistic Approach for Spelling Instruction

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