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Download full textKendeou, Panayiota; McMaster, Kristen L; Butterfuss, Reese; Kim, Jasmine; Bresina, Britta; Wagner, Kyle – Grantee Submission, 2019
We present an integrated theoretical framework guiding the use of visual narratives in educational settings. We focus specifically on the use of static and dynamic visual narratives to teach and assess inference skills in young children and discuss evidence to support the efficacy of this approach. In doing so, first we review the basis of the…
Descriptors: Inferences, Language Processing, Feedback (Response), Visual Aids
Peer reviewedVerdi, Michael P.; Johnson, Janet T.; Stock, William A.; Kulhavy, Raymond W.; Whitman-Ahern, Polly – Journal of Experimental Education, 1997
In two experiments, students were shown a visual display and then a related text passage, or vice versa, to determine which condition improved recall. Results with 100 undergraduates and 112 middle school students supported the expected outcome of improved recall when the display preceded the text. (SLD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Reading Comprehension
Moore, Phillip J.; Scevak, Jill J. – 1988
To determine whether high school students can be trained to use maps more effectively, a study examined linkage of feature and event information, the role of individual differences, and the roles of reading ability and preference for dealing with visual information. Subjects were 31 16- to 17-year-old high school students. Experimental and control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Individual Differences
Bazeli, Marilyn J.; Olle, Ruth E. – 1995
This paper discusses research findings regarding vocabulary instruction and reading comprehension and suggests methods to develop vocabulary using visual aids. As indicated by the research, vocabulary instruction is necessary and can lead to improved comprehension; there also appears to be a strong need to relate concrete visual experiences to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Educational Research, Graphic Organizers
Peer reviewedDiebold, Thomas J.; Waldron, Manjula B. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Sixty hearing-impaired students, aged 12-22, studied one of four instructional formats describing basic science concepts. Comprehension gains were measured using a pretest-posttest procedure. Formats which featured highly pictorial content and simplified English produced significantly higher mean gain scores than formats with less pictorial…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary School Science, Hearing Impairments, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedHittleman, Daniel R. – Childhood Education, 1985
Describes six types of illustrations most frequently used in elementary-level content area texts. Presents ideas to teachers for effectively using illustrations to support children's learning and to develop children's abilities to verbalize the information acquired from illustrations. (DST)
Descriptors: Charts, Children, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
Latorre, Guillermo; Garfinkel, Alan – 1982
Information transfer techniques in the teaching of reading and listening in foreign language and English as a second language classrooms are discussed. Students may be presented with a written or spoken text and provided incomplete visual stimuli to be completed with information drawn from the text. The idea is that the learners are helped in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Instructional Materials
