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Spelling
L1 Literacy · September 7, 2017
Do Good Scrabble® Players Read More Than the Rest of Us?
Protzner, A. B., Hargreaves, I. S., Campbell, J. A., Myers-Stewart, K., van Hees, S., Goodyear, B. G., … & Pexman, P. M. (2016). This is your brain on Scrabble: neural correlates of visual word recognition in competitive Scrabble players…
2 min readSpelling · July 20, 2017The Color of Dictation
One of my favorite lines on Twitter is “Not The Onion ,” meaning that the headline or story linked to is not supposed to be funny or satirical, like news site, The Onion , but is (bizarrely) true. We need an academic equivalent of this –…
1 min readL1 Literacy · March 4, 2012Spelling Nonsense Words Requires Rules Useful in Spelling Nonsense Words
There’s no better way to start a discussion of almost any topic related to reading and writing than a quote from Frank Smith. Here’s one from Writing and the Writer (1994) on spelling:
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