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Farr, Beverly P. – 1975
High school juniors and seniors participated in three studies of the effects of a thematic organizer on passage comprehension. Comprehension was measured using a cloze procedure in the first study and using a passage-reproduction task in the second and third studies. A thematic organizer (material presented to provide a context for the passage)…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Language Research, Prose, Reading Comprehension

Conrad, R. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
Describes quantitatively some aspects of the state of affairs of educational methods for teaching reading to deaf children in England and Wales. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Psychology, Flow Charts, Handicapped Children