Spelling and Meaning of Compounds in the Early School Years through Classroom Games: An Intervention Study.

ABSTRACT: The study aimed to evaluate the intervention effects on spelling and meaning of compounds by Greek students via group board games in classroom settings. The sample consisted of 60 pupils, who were attending the first and second grade of two primary schools in Greece. Each grade-class was divided into an intervention (N = 29 children) and a control group (N = 31 children). Before intervention, groups were evaluated by standardized tests of reading words/pseudowords, spelling words, and vocabulary. Students were also assessed on compound knowledge by a word analogy task, a meaning task and a spelling task. The experimental design of the intervention included a pre-test, a training program, and a post-test. The pre- and post-assessments consisted of the spelling and the meaning tasks entailin

SUBMITTER: Tsesmeli SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5712978 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature