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Favart, Monik; Coirier, Pierre – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
o complementary experiments analyzed the acquisition of text content linearization in writing, in French-speaking participants from third to ninth grades. In both experiments, a scrambled text paradigm was used: eleven ideas presented in random order had to be rearranged coherently so as to compose a text. Linearization was analyzed on the basis…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Prewriting, Grade 9
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Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R.; McCoy, Jan D.; Twyman, Todd; Tindal, Gerald – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
Curriculum-based measurement is a system for monitoring students' progress and formatively evaluating instruction backed by 25 years of validation research. Most of this research has been conducted in elementary schools. In middle and high school classrooms, where there is an emphasis on mastering content knowledge, elementary-level measurements…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Program Validation
Rasinski, Timothy; Padak, Nancy – 1996
Most instructional efforts in literacy education are aimed at helping learners acquire literacy skills and strategies that will enable them to deal with any text. Readers learn to read by reading, however, so it is important that readers have successful experiences with reading. Success can be fostered by careful selection of reading materials.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Instructional Materials
Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1997
Noting that elementary-school students often fail to understand many of the ideas presented in school textbooks, this book presents the Questioning the Author (QtA) strategy, which is designed to establish student interactions with text and build greater understanding by teaching students to question the ideas presented in the text while they are…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Questioning Techniques
Glynn, Shawn M. – 1997
A study examined the role that an elaborate analogy can play when high school students learn a concept from a leading science textbook. The elaborate analogy had graphic and text components that integrated and mapped key features from the analogy (a factory) to the target concept (an animal cell). The target features were parts of the cell and, by…
Descriptors: Analogy, Concept Formation, Grade 9, High Schools
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LeTourneau, Mark S. – Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 1996
This paper proposes that a metaphor of linguistic levels, similar to that used in general linguistic theory, be applied to the study of levels within an essay. The linguistic conception of levels in a piece of writing is not sentence-paragraph-essay (which might be characterized as a rhetorical division) but rather (or in addition to)…
Descriptors: Coherence, Connected Discourse, Definitions, Discourse Analysis
Grow, Gerald – 1996
A literature review traced a major theoretical shift in the understanding of how people read--from the passive reader who receives and decodes information to the strategic reader who actively chooses what, when, and how to read, reads interpretively, and interprets a text (such as a newspaper article) as an organized structure. The result is a…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Journalism Education
Poissant, H.; And Others – 1991
A study explored the question of the development of recall for narrative and informative texts. Subjects, 60 5th- 8th-, and 11th-grade students from a rural area of Quebec, representing all levels of achievement, were presented with an informative text and a narrative text. Results indicated that: (1) the narrative text elicited a longer recall…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Grade 5
Thacker, Peter R. – 1991
Intended to gain information about students who have difficulty organizing text when they write, a study probed students' ability to recognize and understand varying degrees of text organization while reading. Ninety ninth-grade students, divided equally into groups of good readers/good writers, good readers/poor writers, and poor readers/poor…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Grade 9, High School Students, High Schools
McKeown, Margaret G.; And Others – 1990
A study provided students with relevant background knowledge and tested the effects of this knowledge on two versions of a text. The two text versions were four original segments of text from a fifth-grade social studies textbook about the period leading to the American Revolution and their revised versions from an article in "Reading…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Grade 5, Instructional Materials, Intermediate Grades
Price, Catherine B. – 1990
This study examined the influence of textual display in printed instruction on the attention, performance, and preference of 90 preservice teachers, and investigated differential effects of textual display for high and low ability learners. Textual display was operationally defined as the arrangement of specified elements on the printed page, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Chi Square, Higher Education
O'Hear, Michael F.; Ramsey, Richard N. – 1990
A study was conducted to determine whether there was any match between student perception of reading ease and the readability of three main line, first-year college composition texts (Daugherty; Kinneavy, McCleary, and Nakadate; Lauer, Montague, Lunsford, and Emig) as determined by five commonly used readability formulas. Two chapters (on…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Readability
Balajthy, Ernest; Weisberg, Renee – 1988
To determine whether less able readers could use the strategies they had been taught, a study investigated the transfer effects of training in the use of graphic organizers and summary writing on readers' recognition of the compare/contrast text structure. Subjects, 70 freshmen at a western New York state college of liberal arts and sciences in a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Graphic Organizers, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Brown, June; And Others – 1988
Graphic organizers (also referred to as structured overviews, mapping, webbing, or pyramiding) are visual aids which depict the relationships among concepts in a text and which reflect the organization of the text. Five patterns of graphic organizers--cause/effect, comparison/contrast, time/order, simple listing, and problem solving--reflect the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphic Organizers, Reader Text Relationship
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Choi, Yeon Hee – World Englishes, 1988
Examines text structure of argumentative writing in English by Korean speakers as compared with native speakers'(NS) writing in Korean and NS writing in English. Interactive text analysis showed English essays had a clear structural pattern that the Korean essays lacked. Sample essays and questionnaires are included in Appendix. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), English (Second Language), Essays, Higher Education
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