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Potocki, Anna; Ros, Christine; Vibert, Nicolas; Rouet, Jean-François – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
This study examines children's strategies when scanning a document to answer a specific question. More specifically, we wanted to know whether they make use of organizers (i.e., headings) when searching and whether strategic search is related to their knowledge of reading strategies. Twenty-six French fifth graders were asked to search single-page…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Eye Movements, Text Structure, Information Processing
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Rossi, Jean Pierre – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
One hundred French children in grade five participated in an experiment to determine how the problem frame facilitates comprehension of a problem solution text. Results demonstrate the positive role of frames in macrostructure construction and support the model of T. A. van Dijk and W. Kintsch (1983). (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades