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Peer reviewedOtto, Beverly White – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1993
Examines effectiveness of project designed to increase inner-city children's opportunities to interact with storybooks in their classrooms and at home. Finds that 75% of children interacted with storybooks at a higher level of emergent reading at the end of the project, and 10 of the 28 children attempted to track print at postassessment, whereas…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedDole, Janice A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Examines reader and text variables related to conceptual change learning from science textbooks. Shows it is difficult to change readers' prior knowledge by reading texts that are inconsistent with that knowledge, but refutation text was shown to impact students' prior knowledge when that knowledge contained naive scientific conceptions. Addresses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship
Peer reviewedMulcahy-Ernt, Patricia I.; Ryshkewitch, Suzanne – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Investigates the types and depths of cognitive complexity that 11th-grade readers of high, average, and low reading ability exhibited when given either text-based comprehension questions or reader-based journal response writing assignments. Finds significant differences between the groups in type and depth of cognitive complexity, engagement with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Grade 11, Journal Writing
