Linnea C. Ehri

List of John Benjamins publications for which Linnea C. Ehri plays a role.

Articles

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
Ehri, Linnea C. 2017 Orthographic mapping and literacy development revisitedTheories 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