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Download full textFrederiksen, Carl H. – 1976
The primary goal of early reading instruction, according to this paper, should be to teach children to comprehend written discourse in a manner similar to that for oral discourse because both types of discourse require decoding ability--graphic or acoustic. The paper asserts that to simply design reading instruction to achieve the subgoal of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Connected Discourse
