Effects of Two Types of Letter Rehearsal on Word Memory in Skilled and Less Skilled Beginning Readers.

Roberts, Kathleen T.; Ehri, Linnea C.

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Publication Date: 1983

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Effects of Two Types of Letter Rehearsal on Word Memory in Skilled and Less Skilled Beginning Readers.

Roberts, Kathleen T.; Ehri, Linnea C.

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v8 n4 p375-90 Oct 1983

Skilled and less skilled beginning readers (n=54) were taught to read and define 10 printed pseudowords. Post-tests revealed that experimentals retaining spellings in memory as orthographic images remembered spellings better than controls who received comparable training without the memory component. (PN)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Memory, Pretests Posttests, Primary Education, Reading Ability, Spelling, Visualization

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