Sensitivity to Orthographic Structure as a Function of Grade and Reading Ability
Open Access
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Reading Behavior
- Vol. 10 (4) , 437-439
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10862967809547295
Abstract
Good and poor readers at two grade levels were presented with zero-order and fourth-order approximations of English words. They were directed to select the one item in each pair that was most wordlike. Results show significant differences were found between older poor readers and younger good readers whose reading ability was equivalent. These results were interpreted as providing support for the hypothesis that orthographic sensitivity is a direct function of reading achievement level, not age or school experience in general.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- Orthographic structure and reading experience affect the transfer from iconic to short-term memory.Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
- Guessing and the order of approximation effect.Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
- English orthography: Relation to reading experienceBulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1973
- Children’s use of orthographic structure in word discriminationPsychonomic Science, 1972
- Familiarity of letter sequences, response uncertainty, and the tachistoscopic recognition experiment.Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie, 1967
- A study of the development of grapheme-phoneme correspondencesJournal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1963
- Familiarity of Letter Sequences and Tachistoscopic IdentificationThe Journal of General Psychology, 1954