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Miller, Etta – 1974
A study was conducted to test the thesis that teaching word recognition skills in a manner compatible with the learner's auditory or visual modality preference would facilitate beginning reading instruction. A group of 62 students in two first grade classrooms was studied; one class stressed the presentation of words as whole units, the other…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C.; Wilce, Lee S. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1980
Results of a study in which first graders learned ten unfamiliar function words in two different formats indicated that sentence readers learned more about the syntactic and semantic identities of function words, whereas list readers remembered their orthographic identities better and could pronounce the words faster and more accurately in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Function Words, Learning Modalities, Phonics
