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Peer reviewedNagy, William E.; Herman, Patricia A. – Educational Perspectives, 1985
Advocates the use of incidental vocabulary learning to assist students in vocabulary expansion and reading comprehension. Addresses the issues of the number of words students would have to know to make substantial gains and what type of word knowledge is necessary to facilitate reading comprehension. (ML)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Language Skills, Learning Theories
Download full textFehring, Heather – 1983
A study investigated the concept of visual memory and its relationship to the spelling process by examining the attempts of a group of Australian elementary school children to spell a selection of words containing silent consonants. Subjects, 360 second, third, and fourth grade students divided into three spelling ability groups, were given 20…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Consonants, Educational Research
