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Pflaum, Susanna W. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1980
Reports on regression analyses that determined the predictability of each of three oral reading behaviors on comprehension (unaided recall of story propositions) with adjustments for the effects of other variables so that the effect of a single oral reading behavior on comprehension could be independently determined. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Oral Reading
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Sadow, Marilyn W. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1980
Argues that J. R. Kendall and J. Hood have not clearly demonstrated that contextual strategies play a significant role in the ability of some disabled readers to understand passages, as well as or better than other students, although they read with less word recognition accuracy. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Hood, Joyce; Kendall, Janet – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1980
While several of M. W. Sadow's arguments in the previous article convince the authors that poor contextual processing ability cannot account for the subjects' poor reading ability, they reject her argument that good contextual processing ability provides evidence of satisfactory passage understanding. (HOD)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Error Analysis (Language)