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Peer reviewedHare, Victoria Chou; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1989
Examines the effect of contrived instructional texts and naturally occurring texts (content area textbooks) on students' main idea comprehension. Concludes that students taught to identify the main idea using only contrived texts, such as basal skills lessons, will have difficulty transferring their main idea skills to naturally occurring texts.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11
