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Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1990
When 54 second graders, 54 fifth graders, and 54 college students listened to stories that varied in extent of discontinuity, even the second graders showed an ability to detect discontinuity. Sensitivity varied with extent and location of discontinuity, and with variations in instructions and titles of stories. Verbal reports may underestimate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 5
Peer reviewedHeller, Mary F.; McLellan, Hilary – Reading Psychology, 1993
Describes a model procedure for integrating direct instruction in story structure with reader response to literature in two settings: traditional storybook read-aloud sessions and nontraditional HyperCard computer sessions. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Hypermedia, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedFreedman, Aviva – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Analysis of the development of realization of story structure in the written productions of fifth-, eighth-, and twelfth-graders revealed development by age in the degree of realization of an "ideal form" of story schema, with the development rate depending on whether stories are true or invented. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
