Pronouncing new words aloud during the silent reading of text enhances fifth graders' memory for vocabulary words and their spellings

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 921-950

  Rosenthal, Julie ^a   Ehri, Linnea C ^b  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoding vocabulary words; Orthographic learning; Reader ability; Reading words in text; Self teaching; Silent versus oral word reading; Spelling memory; Vocabulary learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961207069     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9239-x     Document Type: Article

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