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Kolker, Brenda; Terwillger, Paul N. – Reading World, 1981
Reports that primary school children learned high imagery nouns in fewer trials than low imagery nouns and that second-grade children learned the nouns in fewer trials than did first-grade children. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Grade 1, Grade 2

Terwilliger, Paul N.; Kolker, Brenda S. – Reading World, 1982
Concludes that when children learned confusable words, their subsequent learning of words was at a faster rate than those children who learned nonconfusable words first, and that high imagery words were learned more quickly than low imagery ones. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Primary Education, Reading Research