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Brown, Shannon Harris; Lignugaris-Kraft, Benjamin; Forbush, David E. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2016
A limited vocabulary is a substantial obstacle to success in reading comprehension (Graves, 2004). A morphemic approach to vocabulary instruction may be an effective method for increasing student outcomes in both word knowledge and reading comprehension (Kuo & Anderson, 2006; Reed, 2008). The purpose of this research was to examine the effects…
Descriptors: Sentences, Learning Disabilities, Middle School Students, Morphemes
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Simard, Daphnee – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
This study investigated the effects of textual enhancement formats (number and choice of typographical cues) on the intake of plural markers in English as a second language among grade eight native French-speaking students. An experimental reading task integrating different formats of textual enhancement into a text was created. A split-plot…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Cues, Teaching Methods
Ganske, Kathy – Guilford Publications, 2008
This book provides tools to enhance upper-level spelling and vocabulary instruction, and features more than 120 reproducible sorting activities and games. It offers suggestions for helping students build mastery of vowel patterns, syllable structure, syllable stress, consonant and vowel alternations, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, and word…
Descriptors: Sentences, Spelling, Syllables, Vowels