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Story Retelling Used with Average and Learning Disabled Readers as a Measure of Reading Comprehension.

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Hansen, Cheryl L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978

A method for quantifying story retells, called proposition analysis, was used to study the reading comprehension performances of 34 learning disabled and normal fifth and sixth graders. Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (DLS) 927

Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Memory

Classroom Applications of Mnemonic Instruction: Acquisition, Maintenance, and Generalization.

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Scruggs, Thomas E.; Mastropieri, Margo A. – Exceptional Children, 1992

Evaluation of a classroom mnemonic instructional method to teach science content to 19 mildly disabled students (grades 6-8) found mnemonic instruction resulted in improved initial content acquisition, higher delayed-recall scores than traditional instructional procedures, and generalization of mnemonic strategies to novel content. Students…

Descriptors: Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools