There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

The authors reviewed all peer-reviewed studies with participants from preschool to Grade 8
for this meta-analysis of morphological interventions. They identified 22 applicable studies …

In fall 1999, the Department of Education's Office of Educational Researchand Improvement
(OERI) asked RAND to examine how OERI might improve thequality and relevance of the …

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple
dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how …

This chapter is about vocabulary processes and, in particular, vocabulary acquisition
processes. The focus in on how school children add words to their reading and writing …

Many new words middle school children encounter in books they read are relatively
transparent derived forms whose meanings might be figured out through analysis of the …

Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading
proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over …

Using structural equation modeling the authors evaluated the contribution of morphological
awareness, phonological memory, and phonological decoding to reading comprehension …

Learning new words is foundational to success in school and life. Researchers have known
for years that how many word meanings a student knows is one of the strongest predictors of …

In the past decade, there has been a surge of interest in morphological awareness, which
refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate morphemes and word formation rules in a …