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Hartman, Douglas Keith – 1986
A study measured the effects that direct instruction in narrative text structure using a story map (called "macrostruction") had on the comprehension of average and above average sixth-grade readers. A 2 x 2 x 2 repeated measures design was used with time, text, and treatment as the independent variables. The number of story grammar idea…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Narration
Peer reviewedCarriedo, Nuria; Alonso-Tapia, Jesus – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1995
Presents the results of two studies where children were taught to identify textual cues, syntactic and semantic, in order to locate main ideas. The children also built graphic representations of these structures and were taught relevant questions to ask regarding comprehension. Results showed significant improvement, especially with older…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Content Area Reading, Context Clues
