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Pauk, Walter – J Reading Spec, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Literature, Prose, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedBrooks, Larry W.; Dansereau, Donald F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Using a developed structural schema specifying the categories of knowledge important to understanding a scientific theory, two experiments involving 82 undergraduates were conducted to assess the effects of structural schema training and text organization on the comprehension and recall of scientific prose. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prose, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedMorris, John – English Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Creative Reading, Critical Reading, Fiction, Language Instruction
Download full textNational Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. – 1977
Written by a group of English teachers in elementary and secondary independent schools, this second volume of the English notebook is divided into three sections: "Evaluations of Compositions Written in Class,""Tests on Comprehension of Prose," and "Tests on Comprehension of Poetry." Focusing on grades five through nine, these tests and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Evaluation, Poetry
Schmelzer, Ronald; Dickey, JoAnna Paterno – 1990
To help students achieve a better understanding of narrative prose, yet still keep the benefits of semantic mapping, the traditional form of the semantic map is modified by incorporating the elements of story structure as part of the map. This format is called episodic mapping. Episodic mapping is based on the idea that most well-developed stories…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Prose
Pany, Darlene; Jenkins, Joseph R. – 1977
Three instructional conditions which varied in the extent to which they emphasized direct instruction on word meanings were compared as to their effects on two aspects of reading comprehension: recalling word meanings and recalling facts from a story. The instructional conditions consisted of (1) meanings from context, which required students to…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Prose
Brown, E. W., Comp. – 1980
The materials described are designed for use in all areas of French language teaching and are obtainable in the United Kingdom. Sources may be located in the book through a subject-area index and through an alphabetically arranged title index. Included in each of the 687 entries are the entry's number, author's name, title of the publication,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Drama, Educational Games, Filmstrips
