Discusses recent research highlighting both the child's growth as a reflective language user and the school's capacity to enhance or hamper that growth. The research is concerned with the need for children eventually to use language in decontextualized ways, without the supporting context of visible or manipulable objects or actions. (HTH)

Intended to investigate children's competence in producing verbalizations to aid learning, this study deals with young children's ability to generate sentences, either covertly or overtly, with concurrent relevant motor activity. Sixty children at each of two age levels--four years and seven years--were employed as subjects. It was hypothesized…

Discusses recent research in the development of spelling, the development of spelling ability, and invented spelling and the child's voice. (DF)

Argues that learning to spell is a developmental process and reviews research showing that errors made by poor spellers can indicate the point at which that development has broken down. Discusses some of the linguistic strategies students must acquire to become proficient spellers and offers teaching suggestions for helping students develop a…