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Peer reviewedCataldo, Maria Giulia; Oakhill, Jane – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000
Investigates the relation between comprehension skill and the ability to locate information. Results reveal that good comprehenders were more efficient than poor comprehenders when they were required to locate specific pieces of information in a text. Findings suggest that good comprehenders' superior search strategy may arise because of their…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Direct linkOakhill, Jane; Hartt, Joanne; Samols, Deborah – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
This paper reports two studies that investigate differences in comprehension monitoring skills between good and poor comprehenders. Two groups of 9- to 10-year-olds, who were matched for reading vocabulary and word recognition skills but who differed in comprehension skill, were selected. In the first study, in which the children were required to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Children, Vocabulary Skills
