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Yeari, Menahem; Lev, Noa – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This study was designed to examine the ability of poor comprehenders to identify, attend, and remember central and peripheral ideas during and after reading. To address these goals, good and poor comprehenders, matched on reading (word decoding) skills and non-verbal intelligence, read three expository texts, while their eye-movements were…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading), Nonverbal Ability
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Zadunaisky-Ehrlich, Sara; Seroussi, Batia; Stavans, Anat – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
Spelling errors are considered a paramount criterion in the evaluation of written texts. The present study aimed: (1) to describe the developmental path of spelling errors in expository texts written by Hebrew-speaking children from the second to fifth grades; and (2) to reveal the predictive power of cognitive, linguistic and reading variables on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Hebrew, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Primor, Liron; Pierce, Margaret E.; Katzir, Tami – Annals of Dyslexia, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate which cognitive and reading-related linguistic skills contribute to reading comprehension of narrative and expository texts. The study examined an Israeli national database of Hebrew-speaking readers in fourth grade, from which a subsample of 190 readers with a reading disability (RD) and 190 readers with…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Comprehension, Story Reading, Expository Writing