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Peer reviewedSnowling, Margaret J.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Examined the phonological analysis and verbal working memory components of the sound categorization task and their relationships to reading skill differences. Children were tested on sound categorization by having them identify odd words in sequences. Sound categorization performance was sensitive to individual differences in speech perception…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Foreign Countries, Memory
Peer reviewedMcDougal, Sin!; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Investigated the relationships among individual differences in reading ability, phonological awareness, and short-term memory. Also examined the mechanisms responsible for differences in short-term memory skills between good and poor readers. Found that reading differences were associated with verbal short-term memory differences. (TM)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Ability, Reading Research, Short Term Memory
Yuill, Nicola; Oakhill, Jane – 1991
Noting that although some children read aloud with apparent fluency, they fail to understand fully or remember connected discourse, this book brings together research on children who have a specific comprehension deficit. The book first provides an introduction and overview of adult and child text comprehension, and then describes the research.…
Descriptors: Children, Connected Discourse, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
