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Download full textNagy, William E.; And Others – 1986
A study investigated the effect of properties of words and texts on the incidental learning of word meanings during normal reading. Subjects--352 students in third, fifth, and seventh grades--read either expository or narrative passages selected from grade-level textbooks, and after six days were tested on their knowledge of difficult words from…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5
