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Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Explains the importance of the context of the purpose of reading to the final interpretation or understanding. (MKM)
Descriptors: Background, Context Clues, Critical Reading, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T. – Journal of Reading, 1978
Explores the aspects of memory that allow people to remember what they have comprehended from reading. (MKM)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Memorization, Memory, Psychological Studies
Peer reviewedJohns, Jerry L. – Journal of Reading, 1978
Research indicates that many questions on reading comprehension tests can be answered from previous knowledge and are not dependent upon the passages in the tests. (MKM)
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedDulin, Ken L.; Duran, Ramona J. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Results of study of response patterns to reading passages showed that not only do we take meaning from print, but we also bring meaning to print. (JM)
Descriptors: Creative Reading, Grade 9, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Peer reviewedFusaro, Joseph A.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1978
Recent studies show that, although graphemic clues are fundamental to reading, older readers can effectively use syntactic and semantic context to improve their perception of word possibilities; the teaching of reading should include helping students increase their use of these supplemental cues. (JM)
Descriptors: Cues, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTuinman, J. Jaap – Journal of Reading, 1980
Notes the relationship between constructive comprehension and schema theory research and decries the lack of progress in applying these theoretical phenomena to the classroom. (MKM)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T.; Sinapi, Lynn – Journal of Reading, 1982
Reviews research indicating that, on the average, students read narrative prose faster and comprehend it better than expository prose. (AEA)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Higher Education, Narration, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedOlshavsky, Jill Edwards; Kletzing, Karen – Journal of Reading, 1979
Describes a research study in which good readers were able to predict more successfully the outcomes of both concrete and abstract stories than were poor readers. (MKM)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Prediction, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T. – Journal of Reading, 1979
Summarizes the findings of Perry Thorndyke's investigation of knowledge acquisition from newspaper stories. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, News Media, Newspapers, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedWorthington, James S. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Descriptors: Accounting, Language Styles, Readability, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedPehrsson, Robert S. V. – Journal of Reading, 1974
According to the results of this exploratory investigation, the students read better when they were requested to read for meaning and not interrupted during the reading process. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedCombs, Warren E. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Sentence combining techniques designed to improve reading comprehension are described and studies showing a positive correlation between the two are cited. (MKM)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Games, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedOtto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1987
Discusses D. Durkin's 1979 study of reading comprehension instruction and J. Heap's critique of the study in a recent issue of "Journal of Reading Behavior." Asserts that the traditional reading lesson is a vehicle for acculturation or teaching cultural knowledge and logic. (SRT)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedOtto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that metacognitive development should remain--or become--an aspect of instruction that aims to enhance students' reading comprehension. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Definitions, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedLittrell, J. Harvey – Journal of Reading, 1976
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulty, Reading Research
