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Peer reviewedGoerss, Betty L.; Beck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G. – Reading Psychology, 1999
Evaluates five less-skilled readers in grades five and six. Uses a word-meaning acquisition task before and after instructional intervention to assess the effectiveness of students' process of deriving word meaning from context. Concludes that all five students improved on every component of the task. (SC)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 5, Grade 6, Individual Instruction
Roth, Steven F.; Beck, Isabel L. – 1984
The efforts to develop and study the effects of a microcomputer program to enhance children's decoding and word recognition skills are described in this paper. The first section of the paper discusses theory and research in the area of cognitive psychology upon which the program, "Construct a Word," is based. The second section describes…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Decoding (Reading)
