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Abadzi, Helen; Centanni, Tracy – Comparative Education Review, 2020
Dowd and Bartlett (2019) tested the reading competencies of second graders attending Save the Children programs in 11 countries. They used sixty-word passages and comprehension questions without time limits and analyzed data of students reading more than 10 words per minute. They found wide disparities in speed among those who showed high…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Abadzi, Helen – International Review of Education, 2008
Reading depends on the speed of visual recognition and capacity of short-term memory. To understand a sentence, the mind must read it fast enough to capture it within the limits of the short-term memory. This means that children must attain a minimum speed of fairly accurate reading to understand a passage. Learning to read involves "tricking" the…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Short Term Memory, Grade 6, Grade 2