Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ716707
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Publication Date: 2004-Mar-1
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Word Detectives
Gaskins, Irene W.
Educational Leadership, v61 n6 p70 Mar 2004
Research demonstrates that students learn to read words in contextual guessing, letter-sound decoding, analogy, and insight. The reading subtest results had demonstrated that the students in the word detectives group read significantly more words correctly than the students in the benchmark word identification program.
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Word Recognition, Decoding (Reading), Sight Method
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1703 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311. Web site: http://www.ascd.org.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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