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Download full textHartley, James – 1992
A study examined the ways in which children recall structured text. Subjects, eighty-eight 12- to 13-year-old children, studied a short passage for five minutes which was printed in either a "chunked" format (where phrases are segmented or presented on separate lines) or a "traditional" one. The children were then asked to…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology)
