Dave Nielsen|Barbara Luetke|Deborah S. Stryker
The Importance of Morphemic Awareness to Reading Achievement and the Potential of Signing Morphemes to Supporting Reading Development
University of Kansas|The Northwest School|Bloomsburg University|University of Pennsylvania
ability access understand meaning multimorphemic words essential ageappropriate literacy growth well achievement participants science social studies printdependent paper provides theoretical basis focusing morphology english teaching students deaf hard hearing read review literature role morphology reading hearing students hearing loss addition authors review empirical literature signing exact english see system signing english constructed morphology words made visible children might able hear authors propose students use see provide bridge developing morphemic awareness necessary ageappropriate reading development achievement