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Readability as an Interactive Process: An Analysis of the Syntactic and Semantic Effects on Text of Cloze Errors Associated with Variation in the Structure of Text and in Readers' Knowledge of Topic.
Black, Mary C. – 1979
A study examined whether (1) there are untested indices of difficulty that can be used to enhance the accuracy of readability formulas, (2) the same readability formula can be used to assess the readability of text for mature and immature readers and for good and poor readers, and (3) some one model of the reading process or some synthesis of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Models
A Procedure to Evaluate Cognitive Requirements of Beginning Reading Materials.
Williams, Connie K. – 1981
Designed to assess the cognitive requirement expected or implied in beginning reading materials and in their instructional suggestions and to determine whether these materials are appropriate to the cognitive development of the children who will use them, this instrument is for use by evaluators with the first reader in a basal series. It directs…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Primary Education
Understanding Reading Comprehension: Cognition, Language, and the Structure of Prose.
Flood, James, Ed. – 1984
Intended to illuminate current understanding of how the reader's cognition and language and the text's structure affect the processing of prose, this volume contains articles written by educators, linguists, psychologists, and artificial intelligence experts on issues of comprehension research. The first part of the book examines reading…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Direct Instruction in Metacognitive Strategies: Cumulative Instruction in Summarization and Graphic Organizer Construction vs. Graphic Organizer Alone vs. an Outlining Strategy in 10th Grade World History. Technical Report No. 6.
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Bean, Thomas W.; And Others – 1983
To compare both the effect of and the student attitude toward instruction in outlining and graphic organization, 72 grade 10 world history students were divided into three treatment groups. Two groups, one of which had previously received 14 weeks of summarization training, were instructed in a three-step procedure for creating a graphic organizer…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Graphic Organizers
Comprehension Instruction: Perspectives and Suggestions.
Duffy, Gerald G., Ed.; And Others – 1984
Prepared by members of the Institute for Research on Teaching and the Center for the Study of Reading, the papers in this collection examine reading comprehension as an interactive process and explore how comprehension instruction occurs in the complex workplace of the classroom. Specific topics discussed in 20 papers include the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading
Reading and Study Skills and Instruction: Secondary: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through December 1983 (Vol. 44 Nos. 1 through 6).
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) cognitive sophistication and story recall in early adolescence, (2) readability as an interactive process, (3) a sustained silent reading program with seventh and eighth grade…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading