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Download full textArmbruster, Bonnie B.; Anderson, Thomas H. – 1980
The effectiveness of mapping for middle school students was tested, using 11 eighth graders who were taught to map short expository prose passages during approximately 12 hours of instruction. Mapping is an innovative reading comprehension strategy in which students identify the important relationships defining the text structure and re-represent…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8, Reading Comprehension
