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Download full textSmith, William L. – 1970
Keeping vocabulary and content constant, it was determined whether syntactically more complex structures increase reading difficulty or whether all students, regardless of grade level, have the same syntactic skills and thus read with equal facility materials written at different syntactic maturity levels. One hundred and twenty randomly selected…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cloze Procedure, Elementary School Students, Language Patterns
