*Reading Strategies; Recall (Psychology);

To examine the role of phonetic code in memory, a study investigated the use of phonetic recoding strategies in fifth and sixth graders identified as good and poor readers. Subjects--120 students with IQ scores in the average range--were divided evenly between both grades. Thirty subjects from each grade who scored above the 50th percentile on the California Achievement Test were selected as good readers, and 30 subjects from each grade who scored below the 50th percentile were designated as poor readers. Students were individually tested in two separate sessions separated by one week. For the visual input condition, students were shown 28 monosyllabic words one at a time, asked to say each word aloud, and told to remember each word shown. A second set of words was presented one at a time; students replied "yes " if they thought the word was on the previous list, or "no " if they thought the word was not on th