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Johnsey, Ava L.; And Others – 1990
This study investigated the position of illustrations and how they affect the sequential organization of text. The primary purpose was to describe learners' reading sequence and preference for page designs with variations of illustration placement. The 70 subjects were undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in education courses at Memphis…
Descriptors: Desktop Publishing, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Illustrations
Ediger, Marlow – 2002
This paper discusses the difficulty students often face when many new words are simultaneously introduced in a text. It suggests teachers may address this difficulty in a number of ways, including the following: writing to a publisher to suggest improvements; providing lists of new words to students before reading selections; and focusing on…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Office of Assessment and Evaluation, Salem. – 1998
This official scoring guide for writing presents details of the 6-point scoring system used in Oregon schools for the 1989-99 school year. It list attributes of students' responses to merit a score from 1 (lowest) to 6 (highest) in the areas of ideas/content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and citing sources. (RS)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Scoring
Wollman-Bonilla, Julie E. – 2000
Family Message Journals, in which first-graders write to their families and receive a daily written reply, involve families in children's school literacy program. This paper focuses on the written replies of four representative case-study families to their children's messages. Analysis of the instructional functions realized through text structure…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Family Involvement, Grade 1, Journal Writing
Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – 1998
A study examined the opportunities provided by several types of text for beginning readers to learn about three aspects of written English: (1) consistent, common letter-sound patterns; (2) the most frequent words; and (3) the contexts of sentences and texts. Results indicate that texts based on high-frequency words give beginning readers ample…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Schleppegrell, Mary J.; Colombi, M. Cecilia – Written Communication, 1997
Compares Spanish and English essays written by bilingual writers. Describes each writer's discourse-organizational and clausal-combining strategies. Suggests that organization on the discourse level is reflected in the type of clausal combinations chosen by the writers at the sentence level. (TB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English
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Balajthy, Ernest – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1990
The article examines the potential impact of computer-based text technologies, called hypermedia, on disabled readers. Discussed are hypertext, the hypercard, and implications of metacognitive research (such as author versus user control over text manipulations), instructional implications, and instructional text engineering. (DB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Media, Hypermedia
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Hasselbring, Ted S.; And Others – Journal of Special Education Technology, 1989
The article describes the new development in technology called "hypermedia." Discussed are the historical roots of hypermedia as well as a theoretical rationale for why hypermedia can be a powerful tool for making knowledge meaningful. Examples of prototype hypermedia environments for use with special-needs learners are presented. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Hypermedia
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Beveridge, Michael; Edmundson, Susan – Journal of Research in Reading, 1989
Reports two studies using a microcomputer-driven self-paced reading task to examine reading strategies of good and poor readers. Finds that reading ability influences reading strategies differently according to whether text is presented in single words or in phrases, and that poor readers read more slowly than good readers. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability
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MacLean, Margaret; Chapman, L. John – Journal of Research in Reading, 1989
Investigates how readers use textual cohesion during reading by using a selective deletion procedure. Finds that good readers are able to maintain the global unity of text better than poor readers and that both groups find it easier to perceive cohesion in fiction than in non-fiction. (RS)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Fiction, Foreign Countries
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Ness, Beatrice – French Review, 1989
An approach to French literature appreciation uses two versions of a de Maupassant story. The approach provided students an opportunity to examine text structure and language usage, explore the process of revision, and compare the first and second versions of the author's efforts. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, French Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
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Snider, Vicki E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The study found that instructing 13 learning-disabled junior high students in the necessary prior knowledge (information and vocabulary concepts) led to superior reading comprehension performance. Textually explicit text structure also improved reading comprehension. (DB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
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Allen, Bryce – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1989
Describes a study that examined the effects of different kinds of cues (unrestricted, bibliographic and structural) on the recall of a text. Results are analyzed by the degree to which protocol vocabulary matched index terms and propositions from the article. Implications for known-item retrieval and the design of information system interfaces are…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cues, Information Retrieval, Protocol Analysis
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Swoope, Karen F.; Johnson, Carole Schulte – Journal of Educational Research, 1988
Results of a study which partially replicated Roller's study of the effects of text-based (text structure) and reader-based (previous knowledge) factors on judgments of importance in exposition, suggest that ratings may be a more sensitive and dependable index of importance judgments than written summaries. (IAH)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Education Majors, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship
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Grabinger, R. Scott; Amedeo, Douglas – Computers in Human Behavior, 1988
Discussion of screen layout design for computer assisted instruction focuses on the perceptions of the viewers. Combinations of text format design variables that facilitate specific learning processes are investigated; evaluative criteria for text displays are discussed; individual and group perceptions are analyzed; and future research topics are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Analysis
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