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Peer reviewedChampion, Ann – Annals of Dyslexia, 1997
A study measured and compared the semantic and syntactic knowledge of 20 sixth-grade students with reading disabilities, 20 fourth-grade typical readers, and 20 sixth-grade typical readers. Results indicate that students with reading disabilities were better able to demonstrate knowledge of suffixed words in oral language measures than in reading…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grade 4, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Download full textTyler, Andrea; Nagy, William E. – 1985
Knowledge of derivational morphology can aid readers in the analysis and acquisition of new vocabulary, in lexical access, and in establishing the syntactic structure of sentences. A study investigated good and poor readers' knowledge and use of derivational suffixes in establishing sentence level syntax. Subjects, 123 10th and 11th grade…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Knowledge Level, Morphology (Languages), Reading Ability
