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Peer reviewedGuri-Rozenblit, Sarah – Reading Research Quarterly, 1989
Examines the effect of a tree diagram on college students' comprehension of main ideas in a social sciences expository text. Concludes that the tree diagram significantly improved comprehension of main ideas and relations between elements, irrespective of the students' initial verbal and visual aptitudes. (RS)
Descriptors: College Students, Diagrams, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRosenhouse, Judith; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1997
Examines 339 Israeli first graders, divided into three experimental and one control group, who were read aloud to. Asks teachers of experimental groups to read interactively--that is, to interact with students before, during, and after reading to help them understand the story. Indicates that classroom story reading led to increases in decoding,…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries, Grade 1
Peer reviewedFeitelson, Dina; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1993
Investigates whether listening to stories in literary Arabic would have salutary effects on kindergarten children's emergent literacy skills. Finds that children in the experimental classes outperformed control classes on comprehension and active use of language. Concludes that children can acquire a second register through exposure in school…
Descriptors: Arabic, Beginning Reading, Diglossia, Early Childhood Education
