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Putting the Answer Before the Question: A New Way of Understanding Reading Comprehension. Set Research Information For Teachers, Number Two, Item 4.

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Nicholson, Tom – 1979

This report discusses techniques for analyzing children's responses to questions about stories as a means of improving reading comprehension. Various sections of the report discuss what knowledge it takes for a child to answer a question; types of questions that can be asked, including explicit, those requiring prior knowledge, and implicit; how…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement

Reading, Comprehension, and Memory Processes: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," January through June 1981 (Vol. 41 Nos. 7 through 12).

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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 30 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) effects of graphic organizers, textual organization, and reading comprehension level on recall of expository prose; (2) the effect of metaphor on the reading…

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques