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Peer reviewedBean, Thomas W.; Pardi, Rick – Journal of Reading, 1979
Discusses a study that explored the effect of a guided reading strategy on the short- and long-term comprehension of disadvantaged students in a seventh-grade geography class. (DD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Download full textBean, Thomas W. – 1978
An investigation was conducted to ascertain the effects of the structured overview on both the short-term and long-term comprehension of average and below average readers. The subjects were 143 college students classified as average or below average readers and randomly assigned to either a structured overview (65) or a control group (78). Both…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis
Bean, Thomas W. – 1982
The first year of California State University's program to improve university students' critical reading of introductory texts had two objectives: to develop professors' available repertoire of strategies for guiding students' independent learning from texts and to develop students' facility in learning from texts with adjunct guide materials…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Economics
