The Decoding Ability of Elementary School Students. Reading Education Report No. 49 [electronic resource] / Dolores Durkin.

A study examined the ability of third, fourth, and sixth grade students to use spellings to arrive at the pronunciations of unknown words. A test of 29 pseudo words was developed. Pseudo words were chosen because they eliminate familiarity with a word in its spoken form and contextual cues as source...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Durkin, Dolores
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1984.
Subjects:	Decoding (Reading) Elementary Education. Grade 3. Grade 4. Grade 6. Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence. Phonics. Reading Instruction. Reading Research. Reading Skills. Teaching Methods.