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Prentice, Norman M.; Fathman, Robert E. – Proceedings, 80th Annual Convention, APA, 1972, 1972
The promise of joking riddles as a developmental index of children's humor was investigated through studying the enjoyment and comprehension of riddles and nonriddles by first-, third-, and fifth-grade normal children. Based on previous studies, it was predicted that enjoyment and comprehension of riddles would increase with age and that the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Comprehension, Grade 1
Download full textStein, Nancy L.; Glenn, Christine G. – 1975
This study investigated the development of story recall in elementary school children through development of a model of story comprehension which specified both the rules for informational transformations and elaborations and the nature of the organizational structure of stories. Using Rumelhart's (1974) schema for analyzing stories in terms of a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1
Streiff, Virginia – 1971
This paper describes the design and practical application of a program called "Listening" which has been developed to help young learners of English as a second language gain some strategies for comprehension in their new language. The long-range goal of the program is to develop the learner's active involvement in thinking about the facts he…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Education, Children, Cognitive Development
