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Willows, Dale M. – 1978
Recent research projects demonstrate that pictures in reading textbooks have a negative effect on the word-decoding ability of young readers. This particular study questioned whether the relative difficulty of the words being read determines the effect that pictures have on good, normal, and poor readers. After pretesting to determine reading…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Decoding (Reading), Grade 3
