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Direct linkCairns, Helen Smith; Waltzman, Dava; Schlisselberg, Gloria – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2004
The authors of this article report on a preliminary study of 18, 4- and 5-year-old children, followed by a longitudinal study of 44 children, who were tested in the first, second, and third grades. The children's ability to detect the ambiguity of lexically ambiguous sentences (e. g., "The children saw the bat lying by the fence") and…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Early Reading, Reading Difficulties
