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Predicting Reading Achievement in the First Year of Schooling: A Comparison of Readiness Tests and Instructional Programs.

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Freebody, Peter; Rust, Patricia A. – Journal of School Psychology, 1985

Results from reading tests and demographic variables indicated that knowledge about books and print conventions is strongly related to reading achievement, and is predictive of comprehension involving the inferential linking of two pieces of information separated in the text. Students in a subskills-emphasis program outperformed those in a…

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Prediction

Story Comprehension and Recall in Poor Readers: Everyone a Schemer?

Wilinson, Ian; Bain, John – Australian Journal of Reading, 1984

Reviews a study designed to determine whether some of the problems of poor readers are related to inadequately developed story schemata or the inability to use schemata. Discusses the need for teaching strategies to enhance children's knowledge of story structure. (RBW)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Knowledge Level, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis