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Goldman, Susan R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
During oral and silent reading, retention was related to segment length and existence of sentence boundary. Next limits on retention were tested by increasing segment length and difficulty. Performance of less skilled readers was uniformly low; performance of skilled and older readers was again affected by length and sentence boundary. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cues, Decoding (Reading), Discourse Analysis