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Peer reviewedHargis, Charles H.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1988
Determined that mildly handicapped students need an average of 46 repetitions in context for a word to be recognizable on a word recognition test. Also found that low imagery words require significantly more repetition and that high imagery words are as learnable in isolation as in context. (SKC)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Early Reading, Elementary Education
