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The Ability Of Young Children To Recognize Words, Katherine K. Armstrong
The Ability Of Young Children To Recognize Words, Katherine K. Armstrong
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The young child's ability to learn to read (defined in this study "to recognize") words was studied in an attempt to determine the influence of age.
Fourteen, three-year-old children and 16, four and one-half year old children, 14 girls and 16 boys, were instructed to read eight words. Groups of three were taught in four, ten minute sessions and were then tested one at a time for word recognition. A retention test was given two weeks later.
The hypotheses, that three-year-old children will learn to read more readily than children nearer five years old and that girls will read better …