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Gunnison, J. – 1983
Current research on information processing suggests that short term memory plays a central role in the sorting and manipulation of text information during reading. Because an entire text cannot be processed simultaneously, successive "chunks" or units of information enter the short term memory where they are compared to the reader's previous…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Long Term Memory
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1980
The proceedings of a conference designed to give researchers and educators the opportunity to discuss issues affecting public education, this report opens with a description of the Research and Development Exchange Coordinating Group's initial efforts to address teacher concerns in oral and written communication instruction. It then lists…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research
Ruddell, Robert B., Ed.; Unrau, Norman J., Ed. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2004
For years this landmark book has helped educators, graduate students, and researchers shape their curriculum and stay informed about the latest developments in literacy research and instruction. This fifth edition continues the book's tradition of exemplary scholarship and remains a resource for the most innovative thinking in the field. Although…
Descriptors: Reading, Models, Reading Instruction, Reading Research