Effect of Pictures on Children's Comprehension of Written Text.

Haring, Marilyn J.; Fry, Maurine A.

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ERIC Number: EJ212824

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Publication Date: 1979

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Effect of Pictures on Children's Comprehension of Written Text.

Haring, Marilyn J.; Fry, Maurine A.

Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, v27 n3 p185-90 Fall 1979

Experimenters analyzed a prose passage into 350 idea units, then interspersed throughout the text pictures depicting main ideas, or both main ideas and nonessential details. For fourth- and sixth-grade subjects, pictures did facilitate both immediate and delayed recall, but only of main ideas. (Author/JEG)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development, Pictorial Stimuli, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology)

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