Using What You Know to Figure Out What You Don't Know: An Analogy Approach to Decoding.

Gaskins, Robert W.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ463725

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1992

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Using What You Know to Figure Out What You Don't Know: An Analogy Approach to Decoding.

Gaskins, Robert W.; And Others

Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, v8 n2 p197-221 Apr-Jun 1992

Discusses development and implementation of an approach to decoding in which students use words they know to decode those they do not know. Discusses how an analogy approach was implemented in a tutorial setting. Offers guidelines for how the approach can be used in regular classrooms, including whole language classrooms. (RS)

Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Prior Learning, Whole Language Approach, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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