Beginning Readers Outperform Older Disabled Readers in Learning to Read Words by Sight.

Ehri, Linnea C.; Saltmarsh, Jill

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ERIC Number: EJ537340

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Publication Date: 1995

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Beginning Readers Outperform Older Disabled Readers in Learning to Read Words by Sight.

Ehri, Linnea C.; Saltmarsh, Jill

Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v7 n3 p295-326 Sep 1995

Gives advanced and novice readers in grade one and older disabled readers nonword reading and spelling tasks. Finds that disabled readers read as many nonwords and spelled as many words as beginning readers, indicating equivalent alphabetic knowledge. Finds that disabled readers took significantly more trials to read 16 target words, indicating deficient sight word learning processes. (PA)

Descriptors: Adults, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Learning Processes, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Primary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research, Sight Vocabulary, Spelling, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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