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Peer reviewedLenz, B. Keith; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1987
The study examined the use of advance organizers by seven regular secondary teachers with seven learning disabled students. Advance organizers did positively affect students' retention of information, but only after students were taught to attend to and use the advance organizers. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedDarch, Craig; Gersten, Russell – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1986
Use of two direction-setting activities (the basal approach to develop student motivation and the advance organizer approach based on the text outline) to improve content area text comprehension with 24 learning disabled high school students was compared. Results indicated that the advance organizer group significantly outperformed the basal…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedSnider, Vicki E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The study found that instructing 13 learning-disabled junior high students in the necessary prior knowledge (information and vocabulary concepts) led to superior reading comprehension performance. Textually explicit text structure also improved reading comprehension. (DB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
