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Download full textBeal, Carole R. – 1988
To learn when children would be able to evaluate and revise texts that presented significant comprehension problems, and to investigate the relationship between general reading skill and comprehension monitoring and revision skills, a study administered revision tests to 65 fourth grade and 38 sixth grade students from a rural New England school…
Descriptors: Editing, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6
Peer reviewedBeal, Carole R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Two studies involving 138 third graders and 18 fifth and sixth graders examined whether children's ability to revise problematic texts could be enhanced through training in a comprehension monitoring strategy. Results show that acquiring a strategy can help children make appropriate revisions to improve the text's comprehension. (SLD)
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
