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Direct linkCain, K.; Oakhill, J.; Lemmon, K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005
We report an investigation of 9-year-olds' ability to interpret idioms in relation to their reading comprehension level. We manipulated whether the idioms were transparent or opaque, whether they were real or novel, whether they were presented in isolation or in a supportive narrative context. As predicted, children were better able to explain the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Reading Comprehension, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Byrne, Shirley M., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This booklet (one of a series of 10 booklets in a reading project to benefit Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky) contains 10 stories especially written for fourth graders by educators. The stories are about: children's feelings about disease and treatment; accidents and accident proneness; children's reactions to the death by…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Child Health, Children
Byrne, Shirley M., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This booklet (one of a series of 10 booklets in a reading project to benefit Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky) contains 10 stories especially written for fifth graders by educators. The stories are about: chronic and life-threatening diseases and children's feelings about them; accidents with guns and accident prevention; a visit…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Child Health, Children
Byrne, Shirley M., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This booklet (one of a series of 10 booklets in a reading project to benefit Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky) contains 10 stories especially written for sixth graders by educators. The stories are about: a student's coping with a terminal illness and its effect on his classmates; a boy's feelings about his rheumatoid arthritis;…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Child Health, Children
Byrne, Shirley M., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This booklet (one of a series of 10 booklets in a reading project to benefit Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky) contains 10 stories especially written for seventh graders by educators. The stories are about: young people with chronic conditions such as diabetes and epilepsy; accidents and accident prevention; children's reactions…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Child Health, Children
Byrne, Shirley M., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This booklet (one of a series of 10 booklets in a reading project to benefit Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky) contains 10 stories especially written for eighth graders by educators. The stories are about: effects of teenage drug and alcohol use/abuse; accidents and accident prevention; the loss of a father to cancer; a sister's…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Child Health, Children
