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Peer reviewedKeenan, Janice M.; Brown, Polly – Child Development, 1984
Examines the differences between beginning and skilled readers in the units used to represent the meaning of text. Compares reading times and recall of 50 third- and fifth-graders. Stimulus sentences all had the same number of words but varied in the number of underlying propositions. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Children, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Rate
Peer reviewedBeggs, W. D. A.; Howarth, Philippa N. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Suggests that inner speech is a manifestation of the need to prestructure oral utterances. Among the results, inner speech was found to be acquired by normally developing readers between the ages of 8 and 11, and children comprehended text better when certain prosodic features were made visible on the text. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Oral Reading
