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Stahl, Steven A. – American Educator, 2003
When encountering a word for the first time, information about it is connected to information from the context. There are four levels of word knowledge: never having seen it before; having heard of it but not knowing what it means; recognizing it in context; and knowing it. A full and flexible knowledge of a word involves understanding the core…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Verbal Development
