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Download full textMiller, Susan M. – 1995
A study determined if there would be any significant difference in comprehension from expository text between students instructed to use context clues and prior knowledge and those students not instructed in their use. It was hypothesized that students who only used a dictionary to understand words, not exploring context or prior knowledge, will…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Grade 3, Primary Education
Power, Michael A.; White, Thomas G. – 1985
To determine if measures of the frequency of English root words can serve as reliable predictors of knowledge of those words, a 98-item multiple choice vocabulary test, in which all of the items were English root words, was administered to 46 third graders and 45 fourth graders. The percentage of correct responses for the words was correlated with…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4, Morphology (Languages)
