Children's Creative Spelling

In this study, originally published in 1986, Professor Charles Read examines the ways in which pre-school and primary children create spellings - or misspellings, as they appear to be. He focuses on the hidden phonetic bases for some frequent patterns in young children's spelling, both in and out of school.

Charles Read

Preface. 1. Creative Beginning Spelling 2. Spelling in the Primary Grades 3. Dialects and Spelling 4. Beginning Spelling in Other Languages 5. Toward a Theory of Spelling Development. Appendix 1: Phonetic Transcriptions Used in this Book. Appendix 2: Examples of Young Children's Spelling. Appendix 3: Frequencies of Spellings. Bibliography. Index.