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Individual Differences in Story Comprehension and Recall of Poor Readers. Technical Report No. 611.

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Wilkinson, Ian A. G.; And Others – 1995

A study was conducted to identify poor readers and to characterize weaknesses in their knowledge and use of story structure in comprehension and recall. Subjects were 80 year-3 children in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 good readers and 60 poor readers. The poor readers were then divided into relatively homogeneous subgroups, using measures…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Low Achievement, Primary Education

Over the Page...around the Pictures...and into the Squiggles.

Gibbs, Colin – Australian Journal of Reading, 1988

Discusses how beginning readers respond to familiar and unfamiliar stories. States that children begin as inventive readers, using different strategies--such as naming, counting, or structuring--to "read" the text. (MM)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Prereading Experience, Primary Education