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Barnitz, John G. – Language Arts, 1979
Reviews several syntactic studies of children's reading comprehension and suggests teaching methods for promoting sentence comprehension in context. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Literature Reviews, Reading Comprehension
Moats, Louisa – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2007
In this practitioners' guide, a recognized reading expert explains how educators, parents, and concerned citizens can spot ineffective reading programs that may hide under the "scientifically-based" banner. Although the term "whole language" is not commonly used today, programs based on its premises remain popular. These…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Whole Language Approach
Marcus, Albert – 1971
If in reading a sentence a reader finds something unfamiliar in lexical meaning or grammatical structures, the meaning of the written material may be ambiguous to him. Sometimes the context will help to clarify the meaning of an unfamiliar element, but often it won't. Understanding what is read involves not only the process of reasoning, but also…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Language Skills, Reading, Reading Comprehension
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Irwin, Judith Westphal – Reading Teacher, 1980
Points out that if relationships between sentences are made implicit (for the sake of simplicity or readability), comprehension may suffer and explains three teaching strategies for improving students' comprehension of implicit connectives. (RL)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Connected Discourse, Deep Structure, Elementary Secondary Education
Baumann, James F. – 1984
Since many studies indicate that young readers have difficulty comprehending many commonly occurring forms of anaphora, an instructional experiment was conducted in which a variety of anaphoric forms was taught, the intervention period was of sufficient duration, and external validity was enhanced so that results would be generalizable to the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Pressley, Michael; And Others – 1980
Four experiments were conducted to determine how the keyword method of vocabulary instruction affects both subjects' comprehension of words encountered in sentences (experiments 1 and 2), and their ability to use words in appropriate sentences (experiments 3 and 4). In the first two experiments, college students were presented sentences containing…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Higher Education, Language Usage, Mnemonics
Irwin, Judith W., Ed. – 1986
Concerned with improving student comprehension of text, this book focuses particularly on teaching students how sentences tie together. Articles in the three sections are grouped as follows: Part 1, What Is Cohesion Comprehension? contains "Cohesion, Coherence, and Comprehension" (Alden J. Moe and Judith W. Irwin); "Identifying…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension
Weaver, Phyllis Ann – 1976
This study investigated the possibility of training or improving intrasentence organizational skills (i.e., those that enable the reader to encode and process verbal information in higher-order units) and explored the effects that training had on reading comprehension. The subjects were 31 third graders, 16 experimental students and 15 control…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Language Skills, Logical Thinking
Georgia Univ., Athens. English Curriculum Study Center. – 1968
This volume contains 10 reports of research designed to study the mind of the child and the effects of sequence and process of learning on elementary school children and their writing. Specific purposes, procedures, conclusions, and needed further research are indicated for three studies on the process of written composition, four studies on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Educational Research, Elementary Education