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Mazzocco, Michelle M. M.; Myers, Gwen F.; Thompson, Laurie A.; Desai, Sneha S. – Journal of Child Language, 2003
This study was designed to examine factors associated with literal interpretations of homonyms. Participants were 212 second graders, ages 7;0-8;11, who listened to a story containing 16 key words. The key words were homonymous words ("pseudo-homonyms"), nonsense words, or familiar words used accurately. While listening to the story, children…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Word Recognition, Visual Stimuli, Story Telling
SHELDON, WILLIAM D.; AND OTHERS – 1967
A CONTINUATION OF A FIRST-GRADE STUDY OF THREE APPROACHES TO BEGINNING READING AND OF THEIR EFFECT ON GROWTH IN COMPREHENSION AND INTERPRETATION SKILL IS REPORTED. THE BASAL, THE MODIFIED LINGUISTIC, AND THE LINGUISTIC APPROACHES WERE STUDIED. TWENTY-ONE SECOND-GRADE CLASSROOMS IN THREE CENTRAL NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICTS PARTICIPATED IN THE…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Basic Reading, Grade 2, Interpretive Reading
Duran, Richard P. – 1983
To determine how bilingual children display a sense of story in an oral reading activity at home, researchers video- and audio-taped samples of four bilingual Chicano second grade chidren engaged in matched narrative tasks. While the two male and two female children read aloud storybooks in English and Spanish in the home setting, reseachers…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English, Grade 2