The Influence of Reading Skills on the Missing‐Letter Effect Among Elementary School Students

ABSTRACT When skilled readers search for a target letter while reading for comprehension, they miss the target letter more often when it is embedded in high‐frequency function words than in less frequent content words. The magnitude of this “missing‐letter‐effect” (MLE) was investigated among 180 first‐ to fifth‐grade students as a function of their reading skills as assessed with the reading subtest of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT‐3). …