Resolving Comprehension Failure through Text Lookbacks: Direct Training and Practice Effects among Good and Poor Comprehenders in Grades Six and Seven.

Garner, Ruth

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Publication Date: 1982

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Resolving Comprehension Failure through Text Lookbacks: Direct Training and Practice Effects among Good and Poor Comprehenders in Grades Six and Seven.

Garner, Ruth

Reading Psychology, v3 n3 p221-31 Jul-Sep 1982

Concludes that good comprehenders are far more likely to use lookbacks (rereadings) than are poor comprehenders and that training improves performance of both groups. (FL)

Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Grade 6, Grade 7, Middle Schools, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Skill Development

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