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Hynd, Cynthia R.; Chase, Nancy D. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1991
Investigates the relationship between text type, tone, and readers' responses of 58 students. Finds that narrative and expository text were not responded to differently. Finds that subjects made fewer text-based and more reader-based statements when reading descriptive text than when reading expository or narrative text. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Research

Smagorinsky, Peter; Coppock, John – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1995
Uses stimulated recall to elicit a retrospective account from two alternative school students who choreographed a dance to depict their understanding of the relationship between the two central characters in a short story. Suggests that these students' account illustrates the way in which reader, text, and context participate in a complex…
Descriptors: Dance, Nontraditional Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship

Britton, Bruce K.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1985
Investigates some of the mechanisms by which instructional objectives affect learning. Finds that with specific objectives, the secondary-task reaction times while reading objective-relevant material were longer, reading times were longer, and recall was greater than with either a general objective or with no objectives. (MM)
Descriptors: Attention, Behavioral Objectives, Content Area Reading, Higher Education

Guice, Sherry L. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1995
Explores sixth graders' perspectives on the contexts of reading and responding to books in school. Finds children respond to books in patterns specific to school contexts; classroom contexts are socially constructed through children's interactions; and children constructed a community of readers by interacting with one another to respond to books…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Reader Response

Schraw, Gregory; Dennison, Rayne Sperling – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Tests the hypothesis that different assigned purposes for reading led to changes in the "interestingness" and recall of text material. Concludes that reading for a particular purpose enhances the interestingness of text information even when that information is not intrinsically interesting. Discusses educational implications. (BS)
Descriptors: Interest Research, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Processes

Schraw, Gregory; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1995
Examines the relationship among sources of interest, perceived interest, and text recall. Reveals (through factor analysis) six different sources of interest. Suggests sources of interest affect perceived interest, which in turn affects recall. Suggests that text structure appears to play an important role in perceived situational interest and,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Reading Interests

Eller, Rebecca G.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1988
Investigates the process involved in acquiring word knowledge from written context in prereading kindergarten children. Analyzes children's readings of picture books to identify patterns of vocabulary growth. Concludes that children learned lexicogrammatical information incidentally through exposure to written context. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Kindergarten, Language Acquisition

Goetz, Ernest T.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Examines undergraduate students' imaginative processes (i.e., spontaneous imagery and emotional response) to newspaper articles. Finds that, as in previous studies with literary texts and feature journalism articles, imagery and affective responses (i.e., emotional response and story interest) were moderately to strongly related. Finds that both…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Imagery, Interest Research, Journalism

Carver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Investigates the relationship between the relative difficulty of passages and the number of unknown words in passages. Finds little support for the theory that free reading results in large vocabulary growth. Calls into question the practice of devoting large amounts of classroom time to free reading if the purpose is to increase vocabulary or…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension

Newsome, George L., III – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1986
Investigates the effects of reader perspective and cognitive style on encoding, storage, and retrieval processes. Finds that structural characteristics of the text itself may affect storage and retrieval processes but not encoding processes, and that reader perspective shows no effect on a delayed recognition test. (RS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Memory

Roller, Cathy M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Reports on six case studies of interactions between less proficient readers and their teachers during oral reading and rereading. Finds that accuracy was a critical factor in achieving meaning-focused teacher-student interactions. Finds further that the nature of text material and teachers' instructional goals influenced the nature of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Reader Text Relationship

Garner, Ruth; Gillingham, Mark G. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1987
Examines students reported and demonstrated knowledge of three structural properties of text: topic relatedness, superordination, and cohesion. Reports students are only moderately knowledgeable about topic relatedness and superordination, and unknowledgeable about cohesion. (RS)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Grade 5, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades

Many, Joyce E. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1991
Explores the effects of the use of aesthetic and efferent stances in response to literature with 43 fourth graders, 47 sixth graders, and 40 eighth graders. Finds use of an aesthetic stance is associated with higher levels of personal understanding and the level of understanding increases with grade level. (MG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 4, Grade 6, Grade 8

Golden, Joanne M.; Gerber, Annyce – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1990
Explores the nature of the picture story book event from a semiotic perspective. Describes a classroom event in which a picture story book was constructed during teacher-student-text interaction in a second grade classroom using involving oral reading and discussion, interpretations of the main character's traits, letters to the author, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Grade 2, Picture Books

O'Keefe, Elizabeth J.; Solman, Robert T. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1987
Examines the effect of a variety of picture-text conditions on third and fifth grade average readers' comprehension. Concludes that the advantage of presenting children of normal reading ability with illustrated text is small and primarily dependent on the placement of illustrations adjacent to related textual materials. (RS)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 3
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