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Peer reviewedRickards, John P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Advanced organizers produced two distinct effects--subsumption of related material and abstraction of incidental concepts. (RB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGraves, Michael; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Concludes that previewing a reading selection improved the comprehension, recall, and reading attitudes of junior high school students who were poor readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Advance Organizers, Junior High Schools, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedHansen, Jane – Reading Research Quarterly, 1981
A prereading strategy designed to predict events and provide practice in answering questions requiring inferences between text and prior knowledge were used with elementary school students. The performance of experimental groups surpassed that of the control groups on some measures while results were mixed on other measures. (MKM)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Background, Cognitive Development, Grade 2
Peer reviewedRowe, 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
