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| Readability | 5 |
| Reading Processes | 5 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4 |
| Reading Research | 4 |
| Elementary Education | 2 |
| Reading Interests | 2 |
| Cognitive Processes | 1 |
| Content Area Reading | 1 |
| Context Clues | 1 |
| Grade 10 | 1 |
| Grade 4 | 1 |
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| Reading Research Quarterly | 5 |
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Peer reviewedPearson, P. David – Reading Research Quarterly, 1974
Provides an assessment of the linguistic variables which affect the way in which children comprehend verbal data when they read. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Linguistic Performance, Psycholinguistics, Readability
Peer reviewedFroese, Victor – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Investigated within-sentence contextual constraints in a sentence-completion task completed by 408 students from grade 6. (AA)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Readability
Peer reviewedOlshavsky, Jill Edwards – Reading Research Quarterly, 1976
Identifies strategies used by 24 tenth grade students to comprehend a short story, and relates the strategies to ability, interest, and writing style. (AA)
Descriptors: Grade 10, Readability, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedWeintraub, Samuel; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Summarizes 369 reports of reading research and divides them into six main areas: "Summaries of Specific Aspects of Reading Research", "Teacher Preparation and Practice,""Sociology of Reading, Physiology and Psychology of Reading,""The Teaching of Reading," and "Reading of Atypical Learners." (RB)
Descriptors: Readability, Reading Difficulty, Reading Habits, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedBeck, Isabel L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Uses a cognitive processing perspective to revise fifth grade social studies texts, to describe those revisions, and to demonstrate their effects empirically. Finds that students reading the revised text recalled more material and answered more questions correctly than did those reading the original text. Concludes that a text-processing approach…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Grade 4, Grade 5
