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Mental Imagery and the Comprehension-Monitoring Performance of Fourth- and Fifth-Grade Poor Readers.
Peer reviewedGambrell, Linda B.; Bales, Ruby J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1986
Reports a study indicating that students who received instructions to induce mental imagery identified both explicit and implicit inconsistencies in text significantly more often than did those in a control group, supporting the use of mental imagery as a comprehension-monitoring strategy. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Download full textKruse, Janice; Presseisen, Barbara Z. – 1987
Designed to reach a varied audience, this catalog provides concise summaries of some of the major commercial programs that teach thinking, and furnishes descriptions in terms of major goal, target audience, assumptions, process/materials, time, and developer. The first section offers programs primarily intended for teachers, including the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
