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| Reading Comprehension | 1 |
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| Journal of Reading Behavior | 1 |
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| Sawyer, Mary H. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedSawyer, Mary H. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1991
Reviews research in revising instructional text by examining multidisciplinary research in readability, text structure, text interestingness, expert revisers' strategies, and readers' comprehension strategies. Finds that much of this research is limited by a simplistic view of reading, the use of experimentally contrived texts and contexts, and a…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Literature Reviews, Readability, Reading Comprehension
