Our aim was to assess the effect of a self-correction spelling tool based on orthographic revision procedures on third-grade children’s orthographic performance. This tool consisted of grids displaying explicit contextual, phonological and morphological rules. Participants were 70 third-grade students, randomly assigned to an experimental (N = 35) and control group (N = 35). A pretest and post-test were performed a week before the training programme and two weeks after the end of it, consisting of a 76-word spelling test that referred to contextual (32 words), phonological (32 words) and morphological (12 words) rules. The experimental training programme was carried out with children in class and consisted of nine sessions in which children had to spell words dictated by an adult, who then underlined their misspellings with a specific colour (a different colour was assigned to each rule) and asked them to self-correct the misspellings using the grid. None of the words present in the pre- and post-test were used in the training programme. The same words were used in the control group, but instead of self-correcting the misspellings, children were shown the correct spelling and had to copy it three times. The post-test results showed that the experimental group decreased significantly the number of misspellings when compared with the control group, with statistically significant differences for each rule. Nevertheless, the morphological misspellings, after the intervention, were superior to the other types of misspellings. These results show the importance of inducing self-correction spelling strategies in educational contexts.

我们的目的是评估基于正字法修订程序的自校正拼写工具对三年级儿童正字法表现的影响。该工具由显示明确的上下文，语音和词法规则的网格组成。参加者为70名三年级学生，随机分为实验组（N = 35）和对照组（N = 35）。在培训课程开始前一周和结束后两周进行了预测和后测，包括一个76字的拼写测试，涉及上下文（32个单词），语音（32个单词）和形态（12个单词） ）规则。实验培训计划是在课堂上针对儿童进行的，包括九节课，其中孩子们必须拼写成年人所讲的单词，然后他们用一种特定的颜色（每个规则分配了不同的颜色）在拼写错误的单词下划线，并要求他们使用网格自校正拼写错误。培训计划中没有使用测试前和测试后的单词。对照组使用了相同的单词，但是他们没有自我纠正拼写错误，而是向孩子展示了正确的拼写，并且不得不将其复制三遍。测试后的结果表明，与对照组相比，实验组的拼写错误次数明显减少，每条规则在统计学上都有显着差异。但是，在干预之后，形态错误拼写优于其他类型的错误拼写。