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Download full textSakari, Mary D. – 1996
A study examined 52 stories for grades 1-6, randomly chosen from 10 American and Canadian literature-based reading series containing well-known selections by well-known authors. The study compared the reading series selection to the original story cited in the series acknowledgments, seeking patterns of difference in wording, paragraph structure,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Editing, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Meyer, Linda A. – 1991
In the course of a longitudinal study that addressed the questions of how children learn to comprehend what they read and how they learn science concepts, many other research questions emerged. The original longitudinal study investigated how children learn to comprehend what they read. Three school districts with fairly stable student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Elementary School Science, Instructional Effectiveness
