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ERIC Number: EJ1357406
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-1949-1212
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The Effects of the PESTS Strategy on the Spelling Skills of a Third Grader with Severe Literacy Difficulties
Grünke, Matthias; Skirde, Isabel
Insights into Learning Disabilities, v19 n2 p193-201 2022
In this single-case study, we evaluated the effects of PESTS, a simple mnemonic strategy to help students remember how to spell difficult words. Our participant was a 9;6-year-old girl with a suspected learning disability in reading and writing. We applied a multiple-baseline design across word sets with one follow-up measurement two weeks after the end of the intervention. The dependent measure was the number of correctly spelled words from a list of 15 difficult nouns. After only a couple of days, the student reached a perfect score on the test and even after two weeks did not commit a single spelling mistake. Although this is only a small single-case study, the findings give reasons for optimism that PESTS can be a very effective tool in supporting students with learning disabilities to overcome their spelling problems.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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