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Rowe, Deborah Wells; Rayford, Lawrence – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Indicates that a broad age range of students can use some purpose questions as cues to activate background knowledge. Suggest topic familiarity, amount of information presented, and the presence of genre clues as text features affecting schema activation. (NKA)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1