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

Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum and Michal Raveh

The Journal of Educational Research, 2019, vol. 112, issue 3, 357-366

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2018.1528541

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