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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

Samuels, S. Jay; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Ability
Samuels, S. Jay; Begy, Gerald L. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine differences in word recognition strategies used by good and poor readers. Twenty good readers and twenty poor readers were randomly selected from a fourth grade class and randomly assigned to levels of a five by five repeated-measures Latin Square design. All of the subjects were given two tasks to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading