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Download full textGordon, Christine J.; Pearson, P. David – 1983
To evaluate different strategies for improving students' comprehension skills, particularly their inference ability, 42 fifth grade students identified as good or average readers were placed into one of three groups for an eight-week instructional period. Students in one group, the Content and Structure group, received systematic attention, story…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedHolmes, Betty C.; Allison, Roy W. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1985
Reports on a study that investigated which of four modes of reading (oral reading to an audience, oral reading to oneself, silent reading, silent reading while listening) best facilitates fifth-grade students' comprehension. Concludes that for these students as a whole, comparable comprehension may be expected when they read to themselves or read…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes
Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – 1982
Starting with laboratory research on the suppression of visualization in reading, this study investigates effects of treatments (reading vs. listening and pictures vs. no pictures, in a 2x2 design) and aptitudes on the learning of verbal and spatial types of content. Approximately 100 fifth grade pupils were given a battery of four ability tests,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Attention, Foreign Countries
