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Sherman, Richard H. – 1978
The commonly-used instructional sequence in which children read material silently and then read it orally is simply not effective. The arguments presented by E.A. Betts in 1957 for silent before oral reading can be countered point by point. Studies that have compared various reading conditions have had serious limitations and have failed to show…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Oral Reading
