Do Beginners Learn to Read Function Words Better in Sentences or in Lists?.

Ehri, Linnea C.; Wilce, Lee S.

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Publication Date: 1980

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Do Beginners Learn to Read Function Words Better in Sentences or in Lists?

Ehri, Linnea C.; Wilce, Lee S.

Reading Research Quarterly, v15 n4 p451-76 1980

Results of a study in which first graders learned ten unfamiliar function words in two different formats indicated that sentence readers learned more about the syntactic and semantic identities of function words, whereas list readers remembered their orthographic identities better and could pronounce the words faster and more accurately in isolation. (Author/MKM)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Function Words, Learning Modalities, Phonics, Primary Education, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Semantics, Sentences, Spelling, Word Lists, Word Recognition

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