Increasing Remedial Students' Ability to Derive Word Meaning from Context.

Goerss, Betty L.; Beck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G.

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ERIC Number: EJ585426

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Increasing Remedial Students' Ability to Derive Word Meaning from Context.

Goerss, Betty L.; Beck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G.

Reading Psychology, v20 n2 p151-75 Apr-Jun 1999

Evaluates five less-skilled readers in grades five and six. Uses a word-meaning acquisition task before and after instructional intervention to assess the effectiveness of students' process of deriving word meaning from context. Concludes that all five students improved on every component of the task. (SC)

Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 5, Grade 6, Individual Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Reading Improvement, Reading Research, Remedial Reading

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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