William E. Nagy

How Many Words Are There in Printed School English?

William E. Nagy, Richard C. Anderson · Reading Research Quarterly · 1984 · 1.2K citations

Language Studies, English, Linguistics +17

Learning Words from Context

William E. Nagy, Patricia A. Herman, Richard C. Anderson · Reading Research Quarterly · 1985 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Education, Educational Psychology, Literacy Education +17

Contributions of morphology beyond phonology to literacy outcomes of upper elementary and middle-school students.

William E. Nagy, Virginia W. Berninger, Robert D. Abbott · Journal of Educational Psychology · 2006 · 885 citations

Education, Educational Psychology, Literacy Education +17

Words as Tools: Learning Academic Vocabulary as Language Acquisition

William E. Nagy, Dianna Townsend · Reading Research Quarterly · 2012 · 815 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Instruction, Teaching +15

Cross-language transfer of phonological awareness.

Aydin Y. Durgunoğlu, William E. Nagy, Barbara Hancin-Bhatt · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1993 · 761 citations

Education, Early Childhood Education, Literacy Education +17