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The Effect of Interspersing Questions in Text: Evidence for "Slicing the Task."
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Wood, Karen D. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1986
Shows that "Slicing the task"--reducing the amount of print a student has to read at a given time by inserting questions into the text--may be effective with good readers but not for poor readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Grade 7, Questioning Techniques, Reader Text Relationship
Acquisition of Hierarchically Organized Knowledge and Prediction of Events in World History.
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Bean, Thomas W.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Indicates that textbook explication alone of causes of events is insufficient for acquisition and use of hierarchically organized knowledge; students must be taught how to construct text-based information into hierarchically structured form and use it for making predictions. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, History Instruction