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Roy-Charland, Annie; Perron, Melanie; Boulard, Jessica; Chamberland, Justin; Hoffman, Nichola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The current study examined the effect of pointing to the words and using highlighted text by examining eye movements when children in preschool, Grade 1 and 2 were read storybooks of two levels of difficulty. For all children, pointing to and highlighting the text was observed to increase the amount of time and number of fixations on the printed…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Cassady, Jerrell C.; Smith, Lawrence L.; Putman, S. Michael – Reading Psychology, 2008
The theoretical and practical implications of examining young children's acquisitions of phonological awareness skills with specific and differentiated processing tasks are explored in this study. The study presents data from 269 kindergarten children completing a phonological awareness protocol that provided information on 14 discrete…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten, Literacy
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McCusker, Leo X.; And Others – Psychological Bulletin, 1981
Reviewed theoretical and empirical work in phonological recoding, concluding that phonological representation is used to aid comprehension and suggesting that decoding graphemic information into a phonological form is important for early readers. Asserts that future research should examine differences in the use of visual versus phonological…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Difficulty Level, Literature Reviews
Tamor, Lynne – 1977
Traditionally, studies of beginning reading have focused either on between-subjects' differences or on changes in reading performance characteristics induced by specific training procedures. A third approach to reading is a within-subjects' comparison of individual performance characteristics at varying difficulty levels. The present study…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Difficulty Level