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Assessment Of Visual/Orthographic Awareness In Beginning Readers, Hope Elizabeth Lemoine
Assessment Of Visual/Orthographic Awareness In Beginning Readers, Hope Elizabeth Lemoine
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Various models reading development (Frith, 1985; Gough & Hillenger, 1980; Marsh, Friedman, Welch, & Desberg, 1981) have suggested that word shape is of critical important to early readers when recognizing words they know. As children progress through the early stages of reading, critical features such as first letter then become the important definers of word recognitions among early readers until they are at a much more advanced stage (Frith, 1985). More generally, advanced orthographic awareness among early readers is not considered to play an important role until children are older and have established a more advanced reading vocabulary. The purpose …