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Differential Competencies Contributing to Children's Comprehension of Narrative and Expository Texts
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Direct linkBest, Rachel M.; Floyd, Randy G.; Mcnamara, Danielle S. – Reading Psychology, 2008
This study examined the influences of reading decoding skills and world knowledge on third graders' comprehension of narrative and expository texts. Children read a narrative text and an expository text. Comprehension of each text was assessed with a free recall prompt, three cued recall prompts, and 12 multiple-choice questions. Tests from the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Grade 3, Reader Text Relationship
Deane, Paul; Sheehan, Kathleen M.; Sabatini, John; Futagi, Yoko; Kostin, Irene – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2006
One source of potential difficulty for struggling readers is the variability of texts across grade levels. This article explores the use of automatic natural language processing techniques to identify dimensions of variation within a corpus of school-appropriate texts. Specifically, we asked: Are there identifiable dimensions of lexical and…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Language Processing, Grade 6, Natural Language Processing
