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Direct linkZipoli, Richard P., Jr. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2017
The ability to understand sentences contributes to students' reading comprehension. However, many reading programs tend to underemphasize explicit instruction aimed at enhancing students' knowledge of sentence structures. Children with language impairments, students with learning disabilities, and English language learners may particularly benefit…
Descriptors: Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Programs, Sentence Structure
Rohde, H.; Levy, R.; Kehler, A. – Cognition, 2011
We show that comprehenders' expectations about upcoming discourse coherence relations influence the resolution of local structural ambiguity. We employ cases in which two clauses share both a syntactic relationship and a discourse relationship, and hence in which syntactic and discourse processing might be expected to interact. An off-line…
Descriptors: Cues, Rhetoric, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language
Kamm, Karlyn – 1976
This paper describes a set of sentence meaning skills which has been identified to help teachers better focus their instruction in reading comprehension. The specific skills in the sentence meaning strand are developed through two sets of objectives: an analysis aspect, where the focus is on identification and understanding of details, and a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
Bratcher-Hoskins, Suzanne – 1984
Reading and writing are both creative acts of communication that use written language as a vehicle for meaning. A strong theoretical case for teaching the two processes concurrently can be built by examining points of contact between reading and writing. One such point is context concerns. The Communication Triangle model (author/audience/…
Descriptors: Models, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
Download full textTownsend, David J. – 1983
Three sets of experiments compared skilled and unskilled college and school age (sixth through eighth grade) readers' processing of spoken and printed sentences in isolation and in story context. The two types of readers differed in their processing of the structural, thematic, and schematic properties of sentences in both reading and listening.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1978
The intent of this publication is to provide an opportunity for educators to consider reading comprehension as dependent, at least in part, on specific features of written language. Chapter 1 discusses a theoretical framework for thinking, problem solving, and reading comprehension. Chapter 2 deals with teaching word-level comprehension,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Content Area Reading, Context Clues
