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Peer reviewedBridge, Connie A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1983
Reports on a study with slow first-grade readers showing that sight words are better learned in the context of repetitive "predictable" books and language experience approach charts than from stilted preprimers. Argues that the process meshes with the basal program. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Context Clues
Greif, Ivo P. – 1981
Doubts about the reading vocabulary adequacies of today's high school graduates led to an experiment with a list of 199 difficult words culled from the "Reader's Digest." College juniors and seniors (298 in the first stage and 388 in the second stage) were asked to indicate whether they knew the pronunciation and the meaning of the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, College Students, Context Clues, Definitions
