Two 10-person groups of third grade children, matched by scores on a number of cognitive variables, were asked to remember groups of sequentially presented words. Recall was higher when the words formed sentences, and, contrary to a previous report, this effect was significantly greater for the children who were previously judged to be more skillful readers.
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