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Fitzgerald, Jill; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1987
Story structure instruction, focusing on forming a mental picture of a story's structure and understanding of story parts, improved poor-reading fourth-graders' (N=20) story writing skills in terms of organization and overall quality but not coherence and creativity, indicating that instruction in story parts can improve some children's writing.…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedIdol, Lorna; Croll, Valerie J. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1987
Mildly learning-handicapped elementary school students (N=5) with poor reading comprehension were trained to use story-mapping procedures to improve reading comprehension. Trained students demonstrated increased ability to answer comprehension questions, maintained performance after intervention, and increased the tendency to include story-mapping…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Elementary Education, Learning Problems, Questioning Techniques
