Ana Albuquerque|Margarida Alves Martins
Enhancing children’s literacy learning: from invented spelling to effective reading and writing
longitudinal study aimed testing longterm impact invented spelling activities conducted kindergarten childrens literacy skills throughout primary school end grade 3 participants 100 portuguese 5yearolds randomly assigned two equivalent groups took part 10 training sessions invented spelling experimental condition storybook reading control conditionwriting reading skills tested kindergarten grade 1 grade 3 results showed experimental group outperformed control group kindergarten benefited formal school teaching instructionlasting effects found invented spelling condition presented statistically significant higher scores reading writing primary educationthese findings support empirical evidence enhancing young childrens learning favour later literacy performance