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Direct linkZipke, Marcy – Reading Psychology, 2011
An experiment examined whether beginning readers can successfully learn to detect and define homonyms, and whether this ability correlates with vocabulary and/or phonological awareness. First graders received ambiguity instruction involving homonyms in isolation, in riddles, and in text. A control group received reading lessons without a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Aptitude, Metalinguistics
Zipke, Marcy; Ehri, Linnea C.; Cairns, Helen Smith – Reading Research Quarterly, 2009
An experiment examined whether metalinguistic awareness involving the detection of semantic ambiguity can be taught, and whether this instruction improves students' reading comprehension. Lower SES third graders from a variety of cultural backgrounds (M = 8 yr. 7 mo., N = 46) were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Those receiving…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Metalinguistics, Semantics
