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Gilbert, Steven K. – 1996
The concept of Arithmetic Story Grammar is introduced. Arithmetic Story Grammar maintains that any equation containing a single operand tells, in and of itself, a complete story with a setting, plot, theme, and resolution. Multiple-operand equations differ from their single-operand siblings only in the number of actions undertaken and the number…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classification, Coherence, Comprehension
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Meyer, Bonnie J. F. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
This article discusses how text variables interact with reader, strategy, and task variables to affect readability, including text coherence, text organization, signaling, and text structure. It considers how classic readability formulas, in concert with consideration of text, text reader, and strategy variables, can be used to match texts to…
Descriptors: Coherence, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Impairments
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McNamara, Danielle S.; And Others – Cognition and Instruction, 1996
Two experiments investigated the role of text coherence in junior high school students' comprehension of science texts. Found that text coherence improved readers' comprehension, but also that giving readers with sufficient background knowledge an incoherent text that forced them to infer unstated relations engaged them in compensatory processing,…
Descriptors: Coherence, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Inferences