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Dahlin, Karin I. E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
This study examines the relationship between working memory and reading achievement in 57 Swedish primary-school children with special needs. First, it was examined whether children's working memory could be enhanced by a cognitive training program, and how the training outcomes would relate to their reading development. Next, it was explored how…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Short Term Memory, Special Needs Students
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Spaai, Gerard W. G.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1991
Experiments investigated the learning effects of two strategies (whole-word and segmented feedback) in beginning readers. Results from both experiments indicate whole-word sound feedback is more helpful than segmented feedback. (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
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Walton, Patrick D.; Walton, Lona M.; Felton, Kathy – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Examines teaching rime analogy or letter recoding reading strategies to prereaders. Results reveal that experience with rime analogy increased letter recoding ability, but teaching in letter recoding did not enhance rime analogy. Children learned to read with a rime analogy or letter recoding reading strategy, and many developed new reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Encoding (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Grade 1