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Direct linkRapp, David N.; van den Broek, Paul; McMaster, Kristen L.; Kendeou, Panayiota; Espin, Christine A. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2007
Many children struggle to learn to read, and these difficulties can persist well into adulthood. To address this problem, researchers have investigated the processes that underlie reading. An informative body of work has thus identified basic skills (e.g., decoding, vocabulary knowledge) as necessary for successful reading. Researchers also have…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Researchers, Teaching Methods
Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1984
Designed to improve reading comprehension and other complex verbal functions, fertile instruction in word skill focuses on improving accuracy of word knowledge, increasing fluency of access to meanings in memory, and enriching semantic network connections among related concepts. It is particularly appropriate for teaching the high frequency words…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Language Processing
Download full textBeck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1980
This report presents the rationale and design of a vocabulary program created as the instrument for research exploring the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. The first section of the report reviews the current state of the art of vocabulary instruction and discusses the techniques used in two commercial basal…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
