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Peer reviewedRickards, John P.; Denner, Peter R. – Instructional Science, 1979
Investigates the impact of underlining and adjunct questioning in text recall for fifth grade students. Results suggest that for 10 year-old readers adjunct post questions and underlining may hinder performance. (RAO)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comprehension, Cues, Grade 5
Download full textMcGinley, William J.; Denner, Peter R. – 1985
A study investigated the effect on reading comprehension of using semantic impressions as a previewing activity to provide an overall impression of a story's structure. Subjects, 31 eighth grade remedial reading students from a suburban junior high school, were divided into two groups: a treatment group that received semantic impressions as a…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Context Clues, Junior High Schools, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedDenner, Peter R. – Journal of Educational Research, 1992
This study examined the use of story impressions as a prereading writing activity. Students either received story impressions, read a story, then wrote stories using clues; received story impressions and listed predictions about a story; or received no preview activity before story reading. Story impressions produced the highest level of story…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Grade 7, Grade 8
Denner, Peter R. – 1986
In a study examining the effectiveness of story-impressions (a previewing strategy) on story comprehension, remedial eighth grade students were asked to write predictions or "story-guesses" based on a series of one-word clues (story-impressions) that had been extracted from the material to be read. Having written a logical…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
