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Cultivating morphological awareness improves reading skills in fifth-grade Hebrew readers

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  • Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum
  • Michal Raveh

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The effectiveness of an intervention program aimed at improving morphological awareness was evaluated in Hebrew-speaking poor readers in Grade 5. The 12-week intervention in small groups focused on learning morphological structure of words by identifying, decomposing, and constructing morphologically complex words. Results were compared with a comparison group of similarly poor readers that participated in the school’s reading support program focused on reading comprehension strategies. The intervention group improved morphological awareness to a greater extent than the comparison group and also showed a clear advantage in their reading accuracy and reading comprehension. The results suggest that morphological instruction develops awareness of the morphemic structure of words that contributes to extracting meaning from texts.

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  • Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum & Michal Raveh, 2019. "Cultivating morphological awareness improves reading skills in fifth-grade Hebrew readers," The Journal of Educational Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 112(3), pages 357-366, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:vjerxx:v:112:y:2019:i:3:p:357-366
    DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2018.1528541
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