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Important Text Characteristics for Early-Grades Text Complexity
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Fitzgerald, Jill; Elmore, Jeff; Koons, Heather; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Bowen, Kimberly; Sanford-Moore, Eleanor E.; Stenner, A. Jackson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
The Common Core set a standard for all children to read increasingly complex texts throughout schooling. The purpose of the present study was to explore text characteristics specifically in relation to early-grades text complexity. Three hundred fifty primary-grades texts were selected and digitized. Twenty-two text characteristics were identified…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Difficulty Level, Instructional Material Evaluation, Primary Education
Reading Development Electrified: Semantic and Syntactic Integration during Sentence Comprehension in School-Age Children and Young Adults
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VanDyke, Justine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Adults are able to access semantic and syntactic information rapidly as they hear or read in real-time in order to interpret sentences. Young children, on the other hand, tend to rely on syntactically-based parsing routines, adopting the first noun as the agent of a sentence regardless of plausibility, at least during oral comprehension. Little is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Adults, Children
Revisiting the Contextual Information Available to Readers Reading
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Kucer, Stephen B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
This research investigates the ability of adult proficient readers to predict words that have been fully or partially deleted, without being able to read what came after the blank. Predictions were analyzed for accuracy and if inaccurate for their grammatical nature, syntactic and semantic acceptability, and retention of the author's meaning.…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Processes, Reader Text Relationship, Cues
What Happens at Reunions? Exploring Causal Connections and Their Role in Reunion Effects
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Trabasso, Tom; Wiley, Jennifer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Past research on anaphor resolution has investigated the availability of discourse information related to characters that part and reunite. Upon reunion, distant concepts that have been associated with the characters before they separated become more accessible than they were just before the reunion. This phenomenon has been referred to as the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Causal Models, Semantics, Reader Text Relationship
The Impact of Semantic and Causal Relatedness and Reading Skill on Standards of Coherence
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Todaro, Stacey; Millis, Keith; Dandotkar, Srikanth – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Readers apply their own standards of coherence while reading text. Readers with a low standard of coherence are thought to find a sparse and incomplete representation more coherent than readers who employ a higher standard. This article reports 3 experiments that examined standards of coherence imposed by skilled and less-skilled readers by having…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reader Text Relationship, Sentences
Relational Ambiguity between Sentences.
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Sloan, Gary – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Explores the concept of ambiity in semantic relationships, and discusses several causes of relational ambiguity, including differing world views, subtext construction, and selective focusing. Asserts that while most instances of relational ambiguity do not impair text comprehension, readers should be aware of possible ambiguities. (MM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Figurative Language