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Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Samuels, S. Jay; Rasinski, Timothy – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
This article uses a review of research to consider a fundamental aspect of reading instruction that has been marginalized in policies and practices over the last decade: the development of silent reading habits that involve strong comprehension and optimal reading rates. The review of research attends to typical development and performances of…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Oral Reading
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Samuels, S. Jay; Naslund, Jan Carol – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Reviews research on lexical access (the process of getting information about a word from a mental dictionary). Discusses implications for comprehension development. Suggests that individual differences in comprehension depend on speed of lexical access as well as on speed of decoding. (SR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Reading Ability