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Morris, Darrell; Trathen, Woodrow; Perney, Jan; Gill, Tom; Schlagal, Robert; Ward, Devery; Frye, Elizabeth – Reading Psychology, 2018
Grounded in the simple view of reading, this study tracked the development of print-processing skill in high-, average-, and low-achieving readers at six time points across grades 1-3. Results showed large between-group differences in sight vocabulary, oral reading accuracy, and oral reading rate that remained stable from beginning of first grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Morris, Darrell – 1980
While word discrimination studies based on the subjects' conscious manipulation of words--for example, counting the number of words in a line--indicate that beginning readers are unskilled in identifying word boundaries, tests using such indirect methods of assessment as word recognition reveal a strong correlation between the ability to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Tasks, Grade 1, Memorization
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Morris, Darrell – Reading Horizons, 1996
Describes how children develop printed word knowledge when taught with a top-down, sentence-based approach. Cites four stages in word knowledge development: word as a nameable object in text; word as an object with a beginning element; word as an object with a discernible beginning and end; and word as an object with a beginning, middle, and end.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Grade 1, Individual Development
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Morris, Darrell; Henderson, Edmund H. – Reading World, 1981
Describes a procedure for assessing a beginning reader's knowledge of the spoken word/written word match in reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education