It helps construct that all-important learning cycle in which success breeds success. Back to top About the Author Barbara Foorman, Ph.D. is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Houston. She is an expert in phonemic awareness, reading, and spelling. She is well known for her research interests which include reading and language acuisition and development, phonological and orthographic awareness, early intervention for children with reading disabilities, and assessment of reading disabilities and language impairment. Scholastic Spelling is the only program based on powerful new research on how children learn to spell.
Phonemic awareness is a key predictor of spelling success.
When students can hear sounds in words they can begin to spell them. Scholastic Spelling helps you assess and develop students' phonemic awareness. Good spellers aren't born, they're taught. Nearly 90 percent of English words can be spelled if you know basic patterns, principles, and rules of spelling. In Scholastic Spelling , all children have the opportunity to become good spellers because they are taught these patterns, principles, and rules that become powerful, lifelong spelling tools.