Activating Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension Assessment.

Rowe, Deborah Wells; Rayford, Lawrence

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Publication Date: 1987

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Activating Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension Assessment.

Rowe, Deborah Wells; Rayford, Lawrence

Reading Research Quarterly, v22 n2 p160-76 Spr 1987

Indicates that a broad age range of students can use some purpose questions as cues to activate background knowledge. Suggest topic familiarity, amount of information presented, and the presence of genre clues as text features affecting schema activation. (NKA)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 6, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Reading Tests, Schemata (Cognition), Teaching Methods

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