Fourth and sixth graders evaluated three types of problematic texts, suggested changes that would make the texts easier to understand, and judged whether four types of revisions improved the comprehensibility of problematic stories. Older children detected more text problems than younger children. Older and younger children did not differ in…

Designed to determine how quickly elementary school children can learn to use a text editor and what editing concepts are difficult for them to master, this study presents preliminary data on children's acquisition of text editor skills and on the kinds of revisions they accomplished with the text editor. Observations were made on a total of 25…

To learn when children would be able to evaluate and revise texts that presented significant comprehension problems, and to investigate the relationship between general reading skill and comprehension monitoring and revision skills, a study administered revision tests to 65 fourth grade and 38 sixth grade students from a rural New England school…

Two studies involving 138 third graders and 18 fifth and sixth graders examined whether children's ability to revise problematic texts could be enhanced through training in a comprehension monitoring strategy. Results show that acquiring a strategy can help children make appropriate revisions to improve the text's comprehension. (SLD)