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Effects of Vocabulary Difficulty, Text Cohesion, and Schema Availability on Reading Comprehension. Technical Report No. 225.
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Freebody, Peter; Anderson, Richard C. – 1981
Two experiments assessed the effects of text cohesion and schema availability on sixth grade children's comprehension of social studies passages that varied in vocabulary difficulty. The purpose of the experiments was to test the compensation hypothesis within the interactive theory of reading, which assumes that reading involves many…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Compensation (Concept), Content Area Reading, Difficulty Level