Linnea C. Ehri
List of John Benjamins publications in which Linnea C. Ehri is involved.
Articles
2020 The impact of story grammar instruction and text difficulty on students’ skill in summarizing narratives Written Language & Literacy 23:1, pp. 29–58 | Article
Previous research on teaching summarizing skill has focused on summarizing strategies that are appropriate for expository texts rather than narrative text. Findings of these studies showed an advantage for older over younger students but did not control for text difficulty, so age effects may… read more
2017 Orthographic mapping and literacy development revisited Theories of Reading Development, Cain, Kate, Donald L. Compton and Rauno K. Parrila (eds.), pp. 127–146 | Chapter
Orthographic mapping (OM) involves the formation of letter-sound connections to bond the spellings to the pronunciations and meanings of specific words in memory. It explains how children learn to read words by sight, to spell words from memory, and to acquire vocabulary words from print. This… read more