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Linguistic Cohesion and the Developing Reader/Writer.

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Irwin, Judith Westphal – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988

Linguistic cohesion involves the semantic and syntactic relationships that link sentences together. Research on linguistic cohesion is related to readability and to developmental and ability-level issues in reading/writing. Instructional strategies for low-ability readers/writers include predicting comprehension problems through cohesion analysis…

Descriptors: Child Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis