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Rusted, Jennifer; Hodgson, Sandra – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
In a study of elementary children required to read factual or fictitious passages with or without relevant pictures, recall performance revealed a pictorial facilitation effect which differed according to passage type. Pictures with story passages enhanced recall of illustrated text while pictures with factual passages enhanced illustrated and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Fiction, Foreign Countries