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Direct linkWhite, Sheida – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
This article presents 34 characteristics of texts and tasks ("text features") that can make continuous (prose), noncontinuous (document), and quantitative texts easier or more difficult for adolescents and adults to comprehend and use. The text features were identified by examining the assessment tasks and associated texts in the national…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reader Text Relationship, Adult Literacy
Binder, Katherine; Borecki, Caren – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
The purpose of this study was to assess the role that phonological, orthographic, and contextual sources of information play in a group of adults who were learning to read compared to adult skilled readers. Participants read short paragraphs that contained a correct homophone, an incorrect homophone, or a spelling control. Target words were…
Descriptors: Spelling, Word Recognition, Reading Processes, Reading Skills
