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Download full textDreher, Mariam Jean; And Others – 1986
A sample of 12 recent and older sixth grade social studies textbooks was examined to determine their level of explicitness, one of the criteria used to determine the "friendliness" or comprehensibility of a text. Researchers randomly selected three samples--usually chapters--from each of the 12 textbooks. The Explication Inventory…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Readability, Reading Research
Antlitz, Patricia – 1990
A study examined teachers' opinions as to what makes children's magazines good as well as which magazines they are currently using in their classrooms and in what ways magazines are being used. Subjects, 10 (of 19) experienced third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade teachers at P.S. 106 in the Bronx, New York City, responded to a questionnaire concerning…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Mass Media Use, Periodicals, Readability
