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Effects of Prior Knowledge, Explicitness, and Clause Order on Children's Comprehension of Causal Relationships.
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Reutzel, D. Ray; Morgan, Bonnie C. – Reading Psychology, 1990
Investigates effects of prior knowledge, explicitness, and clause order on fifth and sixth grade readers' ability to infer causal cohesive ties in expository text. Finds significant effects for prior knowledge for fifth and sixth grade students on all variables except the cohesion cloze task. (SG)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cohesion (Written Composition), Content Area Reading, Elementary Education