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Bowey, Judith A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Investigated children's use of context to facilitate word recognition and comprehension-monitoring processes in oral reading of connected prose as a function of grade level and decoding skill. Found no overall contextual facilitation of word recognition accuracy; however, less skilled decoders were helped by context in decoding some content words.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students