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Download full textDehn, Milton J. – 1997
A study examined whether informed training and computer mediated text improved reading comprehension levels, whether computer mediated text is effective when it is preceded by informed strategy training, and whether informed strategy training leads to higher levels of metacognitive awareness and more frequent use of computer assistance options.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Leslie, Lauren; Cooper, Paula – 1992
A study examined the predictive validity of two methods of prior knowledge assessment: free association and prediction. Subjects, 72 sixth graders from suburban public and private schools, were divided into four groups: standard free association; standard free association plus prediction; definitional free association; and definitional free…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Grade 6, Instructional Effectiveness
Quist, Sheila – 1995
A study determined if there would be any significant difference in comprehension test scores when learning disabled students were instructed with and without graphic organizers while reading novels. Subjects were five male fifth-grade learning disabled students reading on the fourth-grade level, who came from the same middle-class suburban school…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 5, Graphic Organizers, Instructional Effectiveness
Durkin, Pia M. – 1991
A study examined the effects of word type and frequency of exposure on the incidental learning of unknown words in context. A target word pool of 60 words was selected to ensure unfamiliarity to the subjects, 110 male and female average fifth-grade students attending three private elementary schools in New York City. Students were randomly…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Context Clues, Definitions, Grade 5
Richardson, Virginia; Anders, Patricia – 1990
A study analyzed the discourse and content of a staff development process designed to introduce research-based understandings of reading comprehension into teachers' thinking and practices. Thirty-nine fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade teachers in the Southwest participated in videotaped staff development workshops. Results indicated that creating…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Inservice Education, Intermediate Grades
Young, Petey – 1980
Designed to be used along with a multiple-choice instrument for further assessment of the immediate and delayed comprehension of a 1,300 word expository passage on the Kalahari Desert, the instrument is a 35-item posttest, divided into five clusters, each composed of six to eight lettered phrases. Twenty verbatim phrases from the passage are…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Measures (Individuals)
Schunk, Dale H.; Rice, Jo Mary – 1987
A study conducted during a training program, in which students were learning to find main ideas, investigated how different kinds of strategy value information influenced children's reading comprehension. Subjects, 15 fourth-grade and 15 fifth-grade students who regularly received remedial reading comprehension instruction, were divided into three…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Danielson, Kathy Everts – 1985
A study was conducted to determine how effective webbing--schematic representation of main ideas and supporting details--would be in helping students build bridges between their reading of a text and outlining the material in it. Subjects were 21 sixth grade students, who had been working on outlining and were familiar with its purpose and form.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Outlining (Discourse)
Walker, Barbara J.; Mohr, Terry – 1985
A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of self-directed questioning on comprehension. The self-directed questioning strategy involved making predictions, defining evidence that generates the predictions, evaluating subsequent clues, and reformulating predictions when necessary or devising new ones when previous ones are confirmed.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Prediction
Beebe, Mona J.; And Others – 1984
Research on text organization has demonstrated that reading is responsive to the number and complexity of idea units or propositions in a text, and that the capacity of children to recall information is responsive to the relative importance of the idea units. A study was undertaken to examine an extension of these propositions: namely, that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Language Processing
Bowers, Patricia Greig – 1988
As part of a larger study of developmental deficits in the skills of automaticity of name retrieval, phonological awareness, and memory span and their role in reading disabilities, a study tested 13 average and 14 poor fourth-grade readers for digit and letter naming speed, phonological awareness, and digit span. Among the reading skills assessed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension
Long, Sandra; And Others – 1981
Part of a curriculum series for academically gifted elementary students in the area of reading, the guide presents worksheets for a combined career education and critical reading curriculum for the sixth grade. Among the five career education objectives are the exploration of 15 career clusters and knowledge of the nine elements of career…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Career Education, Career Exploration, Critical Reading
Gambrell, Linda B.; And Others – 1980
A study investigated the effects of induced mental imagery upon the comprehension of oral versus written discourse for above and below average readers. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine, through a follow-up interview, the students' ability to induce mental imagery. Sixty-three sixth grade students with above or below average…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes
Bean, Thomas W.; Bishop, Ashley – 1980
A study was conducted to explore the effect of systematically modifying story structure propositions and pronoun antecedents on monolingual, English-speaking students. The study was a replication of earlier work that had involved bilingual students. Thirty fourth-grade students were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Those in the first…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Language Patterns
Allinder, Diane – 1981
A study investigated whether students instructed with expository (content area) materials in conjunction with the narrative materials used in the reading program would differ in reading comprehension achievement from students who were instructed with the narrative materials only. A control group of 19 fifth grade students was taught according to a…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Grade 5
