Writing & Spelling
Articles within this section cover a broad range of topics, including understanding dysgraphia (a term used to describe difficulty in writing, particularly handwriting), teaching writing skills, and technology resources for writing.
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Helping Your Young Child With Writing
Engage your child in the writing process. This article includes simple, fun tasks to give your child that involve writing, materials and tools to help, and LD OnLine's answer to the question, "Does spelling count?"
A Student's Perspective on Writing
Eli, a young boy, tells us what it is like to have dysgraphia. Regina Richards, a well-known expert on dysgraphia (and Eli's mom), explains how to help children who struggle with the challenges Eli describes. Practical techniques discussed include POWER (Prepare, Organize, Write, Edit, Revise) and providing authentic positive comments that move the child forward.
The Writing Road: Reinvigorate Your Students' Enthusiasm for Writing
Teach your students to avoid the avoidance of writing. Learn how to lead them down the path of enthusiasm and self-confidence about writing through research-proven strategies.
How to Help Your Students Write Well: An Interview with Steve Graham
Three research based practices help students with learning disabilities improve their writing. Read this interview with Steve Graham, author of Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School who explains how you can help your students succeed in communicating through the written word.
Teaching Students to Take Class Notes
Do your students have trouble taking notes? Learn techniques to help them such as abbreviations, column style notetaking, and a visual style of taking notes called webbing.
Dysgraphia is a learning disability that affects writing abilities. Learn the warning signs and strategies that can help. There are techniques for teaching and accommodating early writers, young students, or help yourself if you struggle with dysgraphia.
Using Assistive Technology to Support Writing
In this article, CITEd examines how technology can support students' writing skills, including such tools as text-to-speech engines, word prediction software, speech recognition software, and larger keyboards.
Many young readers are puzzled by the rules and exceptions of spelling. Research has shown, however, that learning to spell and learning to read rely on much of the same underlying knowledge. Read this article to learn more about the relationships between letters and sounds and how a proper understanding of spelling mechanics can lead to improved reading.
Spelling and Students with Learning Disabilities
Spelling difficulties can be enduring in individuals with reading disabilities, sometimes even after reading has been successfully remediated. Addressing spelling difficulties is important, because poor spelling can hamper writing and can convey a negative impression even when the content of the writing is excellent.
Improving the Quality of Student Notes
Much of classroom learning at the secondary and postsecondary levels depends on understanding and retaining information from lectures. In most cases, students are expected to take notes and to review them in preparation for testing of lecture material.
Strategies for the Reluctant Writer
What Happens When Students Use Text-to-Speech and Word Predict Programs to Compose Text?
The Strategic Spelling Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities: The Results of Two Studies
Prevention and Intervention of Writing Difficulties for Students with Learning Disabilities
Enhancing the Note-Taking Skills of Students with Mild Disabilities
Handwriting Club: Using Sensory Integration Strategies to Improve Handwriting
Handwriting is a complex skill that is not often taught directly. It is not unusual for some students with disabilities to have difficulty with handwriting. These students may also have sensory integration problems. Handwriting Club is a format that provides direct instruction in handwriting combined with sensory integration activities. This article describes all the steps and materials necessary to organize and conduct a handwriting club.
Helping Students Who Struggle to Write
There are many reasons students hate to write, the primary of which is that writing is a slow and laborious process. The purpose of this article is to provide suggestions to help students, with emphasis on compensations.
Teaching Expressive Writing to Students with Learning Disabilities
Five Guidelines for Learning to Spell and Six Ways to Practice Spelling
