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Peer reviewedEller, Rebecca G.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1988
Investigates the process involved in acquiring word knowledge from written context in prereading kindergarten children. Analyzes children's readings of picture books to identify patterns of vocabulary growth. Concludes that children learned lexicogrammatical information incidentally through exposure to written context. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Kindergarten, Language Acquisition
