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The growth of children's sight vocabulary: A quick test with educational and theoretical implications

Adams, Marilyn Jager; Huggins, A.W.F.

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Title
The growth of children's sight vocabulary: A quick test with educational and theoretical implications
Author(s)
  • Adams, Marilyn Jager
  • Huggins, A.W.F.
Issue Date
1985-01
Keyword(s)
  • sight vocabulary
  • context
  • reading proficiency
Abstract
The sight vocabularies of above and below average readers in the second through fifth grades were assessed by having them read a frequency-graduated series of irregularly spelled words with and without context. With or without context the number of correctly read words varied directly and strongly with reading ability. However, when adjusted for the ability to recognize words in isolation, use of context did not appear to vary with overall reading proficiency. Practical applications of the tasks as well as theoretical implications of their results are discussed.
Publisher
  • Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for the Study of Reading.
  • Cambridge, Mass. : Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Series/Report Name or Number
Center for the Study of Reading Technical Report ; no. 330
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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Copyright 1985 Board of Trustees University of Illinois

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