Some considerations of the significance of individual differences in reading

that the vocabulary load in the texts for social studies in the various grades was not excessive and was therefore not the cause of the difficulty encountered in reading such material. The second set of studies, dealing with sentence length and sentence structure, indicated that the sentences in the material under consideration were no longer than those in compositions written by pupils in these grades. Attention was called to some exceptionally long sentences, but it was concluded that length of sentence in the material under consideration was not a major cause of difficulty in reading. It was further pointed out that analysis of sentences according to form showed approximately the same or a slightly larger proportion of simple, and a smaller proportion of compound and complex sentences than prevailed in compositions written by the pupils in these grades. On the basis of these data it was felt that the sentence structure in the materials under consid

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• The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading

  Edmund Burke Huey•The Psychology and Pedagogy of…•1909

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