(1) Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell has a space theme, and is based on the phonics that kids will be learning in their first years at school.
(2) That suggests a social problem with deeper roots, as revealed by the latest results from the government's phonics check – gauging reading skills among five and six-year-olds at state primary schools – which showed that 180,000 children in England failed to meet the DfE's standard.
(3) In English, the expert group criticises the draft, saying "an over-emphasis on synthetic phonics in the early years excludes other strategies and is likely to lower standards of reading".
(4) 22 female patients with aphonia underwent laryngoscopic and phonic examinations, psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing and biographical history-taking.
(5) Despite the overt nature of most motor and phonic tic phenomena, the development of valid and reliable scales to rate tic severity has been an elusive goal.
(6) Two hyperactive boys who had developed motor and phonic tics during stimulant treatment reacted similarly to low doses of haloperidol and thioridazine.
(7) Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric movement disorder characterized by the presence of multiple motor and phonic tics.
(8) None of the patients receiving nifedipine improved, but treatment with flunarizine significantly decreased both motor and phonic tic severity and frequency in all but one patient.
(9) iPad Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell (£2.99) Released by book publisher Penguin, this is aimed mainly at schoolchildren preparing for their first phonics screening check, with three space-themed mini-games designed to test their spelling skills.
(10) A motion approved by the conference also called for "an alliance of forces" to oppose and boycott the phonics check, a reading and literacy assessment applied to pupils in England at the end of year one.
(11) The YGTSS provides an evaluation of the number, frequency, intensity, complexity, and interference of motor and phonic symptoms.
(12) At the beginning of the school year, 80 first graders, half receiving phonics instruction and half receiving whole word instruction, were asked to spell, read aloud, and recognize 60 regular and exception words.
(13) All aspects of phonics, but especially the sounds of the short vowels, were a problem.
(14) Correct diagnosis of TS is important to appropriate treatment, rather than assuming that motor and phonic tics and other associated TS symptoms are necessarily a function of a more pervasive developmental disorder in a disturbed mentally retarded person.
(15) Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by changing motor and phonic tics, compulsive actions, and other behavioural symptoms.
(16) Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder of childhood onset that is characterized by multiple motor and phonic tics that wax and wane in severity and an array of behavioral problems including some forms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (1).
(17) During phonic analysis, the teacher directed the child to attend to various phonetic elements of the error word and to "sound out" the word.
(18) Nine hearing aids were evaluated three times in each of the four systems: a standard Bruel and Kjaer apparatus, a Fonix 5000, and both a Phonic Ear HC 1000 and HC 2000.
(19) We do some things very traditionally: children learn to read with synthetic phonics, they learn grammar.
(20) We studied nine patients with motor and phonic tics and other features of Tourette's syndrome, who developed persistent dystonia in addition to their tics.
Spelling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell
(n.) The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.
(a.) Of or pertaining to spelling.
Example Sentences:
(1) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
(2) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
(3) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(4) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(5) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(6) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(7) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(8) In addition to expected differences in spelling and reading, probands obtained significantly (P less than or equal to .01) lower scores than controls on tests of other cognitive abilities.
(9) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(10) Yesterday, John McDonnell spelled out the new Labour leadership’s public investment-driven economic alternative to austerity.
(11) Recognition memory was assessed by asking subjects to indicate which words from a longer list were presented during the spelling test.
(12) It was a spell in which the Dutch were in the ascendancy.
(13) When I wrote this week's public manager column pointing out that there are still too few women in senior public sector leadership roles, it didn't occur to me that I would have to spell out the reasons why it might be a good idea to have a few more women in top positions.
(14) Sigurdsson joined Reading as a youngster in 2005, and had loan spells at Crewe and Shrewsbury before breaking into the first team.
(15) Slow speech development occurred frequently in developmental and acquired spelling dysgraphic children.
(16) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
(17) Since ALS occurs mostly in older age groups, this brings up the possibility that aging changes in the brain could play a causative role in the origin of such spells.
(18) A long spell of ultra-low interest rates has not driven a rise in inequality in the UK, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has said, rebuffing criticism that central bank policy had hurt some households.
(19) 3.05pm BST The Russian foreign ministry has again spelled out Sergei Lavrov's objections to threatening Syria with force if it doesn't comply with the chemical weapons agreement.
(20) However, when spelling ability was investigated, a heritability of 0.53 was obtained, increasing to 0.75 when intelligence was controlled.