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Accounting for Children's Orthographic Learning while Reading Text: Do Children Self-Teach?
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Cunningham, Anne E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Share's "self-teaching" model proposes that readers acquire most knowledge about the orthographic structure of words incidentally while reading independently. In the current study, the self-teaching hypothesis was tested by simulating everyday reading through the use of real words, analyzing the effects of context, and considering the independent…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Cognitive Ability, Spelling, Independent Study