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Peer reviewedKeenan, Janice M.; Brown, Polly – Child Development, 1984
Examines the differences between beginning and skilled readers in the units used to represent the meaning of text. Compares reading times and recall of 50 third- and fifth-graders. Stimulus sentences all had the same number of words but varied in the number of underlying propositions. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Children, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Rate
Peer reviewedBeggs, W. D. A.; Howarth, Philippa N. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Suggests that inner speech is a manifestation of the need to prestructure oral utterances. Among the results, inner speech was found to be acquired by normally developing readers between the ages of 8 and 11, and children comprehended text better when certain prosodic features were made visible on the text. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Oral Reading
Peer reviewedSmith, Lyle R. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1984
Secondary students who read an economics lesson silently scored significantly higher than students who received an oral presentation of the lesson. A significant interaction between lesson organization and student ability level indicated that highly organized economics lessons increase student learning under certain ability level conditions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Course Organization
Download full textGarner, Barbara, Ed. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2005
"Focus on Basics" is the quarterly publication of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. It presents best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used by adult basic education teachers, counselors, program administrators, and policymakers. "Focus on Basics" is dedicated to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Health Education, Second Language Learning, Learning Activities
Smith, Lyle R. – 1984
The organization of social studies classroom communication and the format for presenting such communication were investigated. High school students (n=282) were assigned to groups determined by the possible combinations of lesson organization, also referred to as lesson commonality (high versus medium versus low), method of reading (oral versus…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Content Area Reading, Educational Research
Pehrsson, Robert S. – 1982
A study was conducted to determine the validity of the Op-In procedure in measuring global comprehension and to identify patterns of integrative thinking similar to those of pilot study subjects. The Op-In procedure is a type of cloze procedure that deletes every other sentence ending from a passage. Three sixth grade level scientific passages…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHiggins, Eleanor L.; Raskind, Marshall H. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1997
Thirty-seven college students with learning disabilities were given a reading comprehension task under the following conditions: (1) using an optical character recognition/speech synthesis system; (2) having the text read aloud by a human reader; or (3) reading silently without assistance. Findings indicated that the greater the disability, the…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) cognitive sophistication and story recall in early adolescence, (2) readability as an interactive process, (3) a sustained silent reading program with seventh and eighth grade…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
