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Download full textRembold, Karen L.; Yussen, Steven R. – 1983
A developmental study investigated the pictorial and linguistic main idea identification skills of 104 students in second, fifth, and eighth grades. In the pictorial task, the subjects studied a complete picture story and ranked the effectiveness of four separate main idea alternatives at capturing the meaning of the story. Following the same…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedBeech, John R.; Harding, Lenora M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1984
Concludes that in virtually all tests involving phonemic processing, poor readers performed significantly worse than did chronological age controls. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedEnglert, Carol Sue; Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
The effects of four major types of expository text on the comprehension performance of 69 third and 69 sixth graders were investigated. Results suggest that knowledge of discourse types underlies effective expository comprehension and that this ability increases as children reach the upper elementary grades. (BS)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Expository Writing
Gerhard, Christian; Smith, Laura J. – 1985
Recognizing the need for some form of evaluation of students' ability to understand the organization of ideas in different subject areas, a study was conducted to evaluate 450 paragraphs written by students aged 12 to 17. Students chose one of three groups of four words each to write on. Each group represented a category, the subjects being…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Kinzer, Charles K. – 1983
A specific skill necessary to expand vocabulary is that of acquiring additional meanings for words that have common, already known meanings. A study was conducted to determine if presenting subjects with the known meaning of a word before requiring them to learn a new meaning for it would result in a learning detriment. The study used homonyms…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Peer reviewedIrwin, Judith Westphal – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
Linguistic cohesion involves the semantic and syntactic relationships that link sentences together. Research on linguistic cohesion is related to readability and to developmental and ability-level issues in reading/writing. Instructional strategies for low-ability readers/writers include predicting comprehension problems through cohesion analysis…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis
Jensen, Julie M., Ed. – 1984
Intended for elementary school teachers of reading and composition, this book assembles several articles on the reading/writing relationship that have appeared in 1982 and 1983 issues of the journal "Language Arts." The three sections of the book define the relationship between composing and comprehending, explore relevant research, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
