Morphological Awareness Skills of Fourth-Grade African American Students

Kenn Apel, Shurita Thomas-Tate

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools · 2009 · 45 citations · 37 references

Abstract

As shown in previous investigations of Caucasian children's morphological awareness skills, fourth-grade African American students' morphological awareness abilities are associated with select language and literacy skills. Professionals should capitalize on students' intact capabilities in morphological awareness during literacy instruction in an effort to maximize language and literacy performance for African American students.

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