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Gordon, Christine J. – 1992
This paper addresses the role of prior knowledge in the comprehension of narrative and expository text, two major categories of discourse. The paper reviews some of the differences in the essence of prior knowledge required to comprehend each text type and then examines research on prior knowledge and conceptual change that deals with both text…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
