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Active Participation in the Reading of Fourth and Sixth Grade Children.
Fitzpatrick, Oney D., Jr.; Naus, Mary J. – 1989
To understand what kinds of mental processing take place during reading and how the child encodes information that is presented, a study investigated the comprehension of a story by asking the reader to take part actively in the decision-making of the protagonist. Subjects, 56 children from a fourth- and sixth-grade class at an elementary school…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Grade 4, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
The Effects of Exposure to Children's Literature through Read Aloud and an Inferencing Strategy on Low Reading Ability Fifth Graders' Sense of Story Structure and Reading Comprehension.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Ouellette, Glenda; Dagostino, Lorraine; Carifio, James – Reading Improvement, 1999
Examines the effects of exposures to children's literature through reading aloud and an inferencing strategy on low-reading-ability fifth-grade readers' sense of story structure and reading comprehension. Uses an experimental/control group repeated measures design. Finds that this study is consistent with other research that indicates the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Low Achievement
Explicit Story Structure Instruction and the Narrative Writing of Fourth- and Fifth-Grade Below-Average Readers.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Gambrell, Linda B.; Chasen, Steven P. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1991
Investigates the effects of explicit story structure instruction on below-average fourth and fifth grade readers' narrative writing performance. Finds that explicit story structure instruction positively influenced the narrative writing performance in terms of both quality and quantity of their writing. (MG)
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades