The ability of 12 language-impaired, 12 reading-impaired, and 12 normal 6- to 8-year-olds to process phonological lexical, and morphological information was compared. Learning-impaired subjects performed significantly poorer than reading-impaired children only on word and sentence repetition tasks, confirming that poor readers have difficulty…

Investigates whether elementary school children can successfully execute a mental rotation on Marmor's state-comparison task without knowledge of logical sequence relations, whereas such knowledge is required to construct or evaluate external representations of the successive states in a rotation movement. (HOD)

Previous studies indicate that many early elementary school children have the misconception that whole number subtraction is a commutative operation. The degree and character of this subtraction error was investigated in this longitudinal study. Results obtained from three groups of students with different number abilities provided further…

Reviews a line of research in which the readability of basal reader stories is assessed through a comparison of traditional and story grammar-based indices. Presents implications for the measurement of readability and the preparation of basal reader stories. (FL)

Explored the nature of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised third factor, Freedom from Distractibility, by factor analyzing its relations with constructs underlying selected neuropsychological measures. Results indicated the abilities tapped by Factor 3 are more complex than its name suggests. (MCF)

The relationship between forward and backward digit span and basic cognitive processes was examined. Subjects were administered measures of sequential processing, simultaneous processing, and planning. Correlational analyses indicated the serial processing character of forward digit span, and the relationship between backward digit span and…

Provides examples which suggest the importance of giving children opportunities to create their own arguments and of allowing them the opportunity to verbalize these arguments in clinical interviews. Also indicates that if time is spent interviewing children individually, instruction can be matched to the way they think. (JN)

Describes a districtwide thinking skills program developed by teachers in an Illinois elementary school. (MD)

Reports on a study that investigated the effect of readers' abilities to be creative on their abilities to make inferences in reading prose passages. (FL)

Discusses the value of reflective thought in classroom drama. Examines three levels of reflection in drama, discussing how integration of reflection and drama can become a medium for learning. (HTH)

Reviews recent ERIC materials on comprehension monitoring. (FL)

Third- and sixth-grade children rated nine single stories which combined three levels of intentions and consequences and which varied by order in which intention and consequence information was presented. Subjects also made choices for three story pairs which varied in terms of the order of presentation of intention and consequence information.…

In three studies, children between five and ten years of age listened to short stories and answered questions about presented and implied information. Results demonstrated how hypothesis generation, comprehension monitoring, clue integration, and converging evidence influence children's developing inferential reasoning. (Author/MP)

Two experiments examined processes underlying contextual facilitation effects in second, fourth, and six graders and adults. Patterns of response latencies indicated that, for the youngest children, facilitation for stimuli presented in a related context was attributable to an automatic activation process. (Author/MP)

Investigated digit repetition performance in learning-disabled children in an effort to assess its clinical and theoretical significance. Clincally, learning-disabled children (N=100) had a higher than expected incidence of large verbal-performance discrepancies, although mean overall digit repetition performance did not differ appreciably from…