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Szatkowski, Hannah Dupre – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This qualitative case study explores the processes that occurred when pre-service teachers in an undergraduate elementary education literacy methods course were asked to interact with contextually challenging texts in a comprehension module and implement comprehension instruction in a tutoring field experience placement. The goal was to understand…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Tutoring
Balasa, Michael A. – Elementary English, 1973
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension

Sadow, Marilyn – Reading Teacher, 1982
Argues that basing comprehension questions on story grammar will help students develop story schema. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension

Johnson, Holly; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 1981
Third- and fifth-grade children's abilities to make inferences in the context of reading and understanding a lengthy story were examined. The most critical result was that the younger, but not the older children, made fewer inferences when the component premises for an inference were located in separate paragraphs than when they occurred in the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Poostay, Edward J. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Offers suggestions on using underlining as a strategy to help students identify key concepts. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction

Stevens, Kathleen C. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Emphasizes that, in order to comprehend, a reader must chunk the many words of a sentence into meaningful groups of words. Offers suggestions for developing "thought units" in the upper grades. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension

Wilson, Cathy Roller – Reading Teacher, 1983
Provides suggestions for activating prior knowledge, getting children to be aware when their comprehension is lagging, and tying it all together at the end. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Prior Learning

Johnson, Barbara – Reading Horizons, 1982
Outlines seven basic concepts regarding teachers' understanding of the comprehension process and proposes several instructional strategies based on the concepts, each of which actively involves children in reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction

Marr, Mary Beth; Gormley, Kathleen – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Discusses the results of a study that examined the relationship between comprehension ability and prior knowledge in children's recall of structurally equivalent text. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension

Whaley, Jill Fitzgerald – Reading Teacher, 1981
Describes a story grammar, summarizes some results of story grammar research, and suggests instructional procedures for developing children's concept of story and story components. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension

Cain, Kate; Oakhill, Jane; Bryant, Peter – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2000
Presents six experiments that investigate the hypothesis that text comprehension problems in young children arise from phonological processing difficulties for children in the presence of age-appropriate word reading skills. Supports previous work which indicates that poor comprehenders' problems arise from higher-level processing difficulties.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Kendall, Janet Ross; Mason, Jana M. – 1980
Three experiments were conducted to determine how children assign meaning to a multiple-meaning word in a sentence context. Fourth-grade children were given sentences in which a key word carried a meaning other than its "primary," or most familiar, meaning. Two types of multiple choice questions could then follow: in the first type, the secondary,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension
Marr, Mary Beth – 1978
Thirty-six fourth grade pupils were grouped according to reading ability in a study conducted to examine comprehension within the framework of event perception. The children were presented a sequential activity described in picture or text form and then were asked to indicate on scoring sheets which of eight test items logically fit with the event…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Performance Factors

Morgan, Raymond F.; Esposito, James P. – Reading Improvement, 1977
Discusses study which supported the Piagetian theory concerning the cognitive functioning of the concrete operational child. (JM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Intelligence, Learning Theories

Andersson, Billie Venturatos; Gipe, Joan P. – Reading Psychology, 1983
Reports on a study that investigated the effect of readers' abilities to be creative on their abilities to make inferences in reading prose passages. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Elementary Education