An Advance upon the Lexical Route to Learning to Read. Confirmation of the Componential Approach?.

Coleman, Peter

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ERIC Number: EJ459284

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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An Advance upon the Lexical Route to Learning to Read. Confirmation of the Componential Approach?

Coleman, Peter

Reading, v25 n3 p26-28 Nov 1991

Suggests that the majority of poor readers are poor at discriminating similar letters/words and at letter recognition. Argues that general sensory perceptive training does not improve subsequent reading development but that specific letter/word training in discrimination and recognition has a favorable effect. (RS)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulties, Remedial Reading, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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