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3.5.6 Handwriting and Spelling: Do We Need to Teach the Foundations of Writing in Gifted Education?
Writing by hand continues to be the most common method students use to communicate their knowledge in school, and in early elementary classrooms, a large percentage of the day involves written tasks. This session will examine whether or not instruction in the foundations of writing, handwriting, and spelling, have a role in young gifted children’s education. This presentation will disseminate the chief findings from the presenter’s dissertation, which looked at how grade-one gifted children’s writing changed after one year of explicit and systematic instruction in handwriting and spelling. The results from this study have the potential to inform classroom practice, pedagogy, and policy.