Not exact matches
When they looked at data across all families, breast - feeding had
better outcomes than bottle - feeding in factors like BMI, hyperactivity, math
skills, reading
recognition, vocabulary
word identification, digit recollection, scholastic competence and obesity.
Test students memory
skills,
recognition of
words, spot missing vowels, un jumble
words and matching activity as
well as a list of possible follow - up tasks.
Among a subgroup of students who entered school with below - average alphabet
skills and ability to sound out
words, those who participated in SFA for three years performed significantly
better than peers whose schools were not in the program on tests of phonics
skills,
word recognition, and reading fluency.
The results of several studies have indicated that certain mediated tools can improve
word recognition, reading comprehension, and spelling
skills and boost self - esteem, as
well (Taylor, Hasselbring, & Williams, 2001; The Access Center, 2004).
In fact, Durgunoglu and colleagues (1993) found that the
best predictors of literacy development in both Spanish and English for native Spanish - speaking children were their phonological awareness and their
word recognition skills in Spanish.
Fluency depends upon
well developed
word recognition skills, but such
skills do not inevitably lead to fluency.
If a student scores
well on text - to - text (questions during reading) but lower on text understanding (questions after reading), it is possible that the student has adequate
word recognition and vocabulary
skills, but needs to learn how to synthesize information from different parts of a passage.
This study showed that experiencing the text bimodally (visually and aurally) enabled poor readers to perform as
well as
skilled readers in
word recognition and retention.