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Download full textElley, Warwick B. – 1988
The prevailing assumption underlying practice in the classroom is that children acquire most of their new words from context during silent reading. The trouble with learning from silent reading is that many pupils do not read widely or quickly enough. Reading aloud to children will, however, allow them to participate in activity that they all can…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Oral Reading, Reading Research
