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Mellard, Daryl F.; Fall, Emily – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2012
The following insights into the reading skills of 312 participants in adult basic and secondary education programs are based on a principal components analysis of reading components' contributions to variance in reading comprehension. Overall, 75% of variance was explained by four composite variables representing word skills, language…
Descriptors: Memory, Factor Analysis, Adult Education, Functional Reading
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Purcell-Gates, Victoria; Duke, Nell K.; Martineau, Joseph A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
This study explored, with both experimental and correlational designs, the roles of (a) authentic, communicatively functional reading and writing and (b) the explicit explanation of genre function and features on growth in genre-specific reading and writing abilities of children in grades two and three. The genres used for this exploration were…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Science Instruction, Literacy Education