Flashcards Revisited: Training Poor Readers To Read Words Faster Improves Their Comprehension of Text.

Tan, Annette; Nicholson, Tom

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ERIC Number: EJ550052

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Publication Date: 1997

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Flashcards Revisited: Training Poor Readers To Read Words Faster Improves Their Comprehension of Text.

Tan, Annette; Nicholson, Tom

Journal of Educational Psychology, v89 n2 p276-88 Jun 1997

Forty-two below-average readers (ages 7 to 10 years) were given single-word training, phrase training, or no training. Trained children in either condition learned to decode target words quickly and accurately using flashcards, and had better comprehension than untrained children. (SLD)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Rate, Training, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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