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Peer reviewedDonovan, Carol A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2001
Describes the intermediate forms of children's informational and story composition across the elementary grades. Finds that even the youngest children differentiated between the genres with over half of all kindergartners and first graders producing texts classified at some level of organizational complexity above labels and statement, and by…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Grammar
Peer reviewedOuellette, Glenda; Dagostino, Lorraine; Carifio, James – Reading Improvement, 1998
Investigates fifth-grade children's expectations for stories in relation to knowledge of literature/reading ability. Shows "high readers" included more high-level story propositions and structurally important story information than did low readers; students who included structurally important story information scored higher on knowledge…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Discourse Analysis, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Hartman, Douglas Keith – 1986
A study measured the effects that direct instruction in narrative text structure using a story map (called "macrostruction") had on the comprehension of average and above average sixth-grade readers. A 2 x 2 x 2 repeated measures design was used with time, text, and treatment as the independent variables. The number of story grammar idea…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Narration
Peer reviewedRiley, Gail L. – Modern Language Journal, 1993
The ability of foreign language readers to comprehend 3 different story structures of a medieval French folk tale, "Le Bisclavret," was investigated among 120 university language students. Findings suggest that both story organization and amount of second-language study influence recall. Recommendations for classroom instruction are suggested.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedGoldstone, Bette P. – Reading Teacher, 2002
Considers how children's books change with the culture around them. Notes how students need concrete and specific information about the special features and organization of postmodern picture books to enhance appreciation and comprehension. Investigates these specific features and demonstrates ways to teach this new story grammar. (SG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedAmer, Aly A. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1992
Story grammar is a recent area of research related to an interactive conceptualization of reading. A study of 70 sixth-grade students studying English as a foreign language (EFL) suggests that direct instruction in story grammar helps students abstract a story's episodic sequence and metastructure. Sample texts are appended. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Peer reviewedBacon, Ellen H.; Carpenter, Dale – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The study found that college students with learning disabilities (LD) were as able as nondisabled students to use story grammar and comparison text structure to aid recall of social studies text passages. However, LD students scored significantly lower on use of causation text structure. Results suggest that use of comparison structures precede…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
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
Download full textRiccobono, Rossella – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This article analyzes the function of deixis in the poetry of the 20th century Italian, Eugenio Montale, in particular, his "In limine." The main objective is to show how deixis is involved in the dynamic relationship between text and reader. A constant problem in Montale's texts is that of a disharmony felt by the poetic voice with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Rhythm, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles
Isaacson, Stephen; Mattoon, Cynthia Burt – Learning Disabilities Research, 1990
Forty-two inner city intermediate-grade learning-disabled students wrote fables when provided with the following stimuli: story starter, story ending with story content, and story ending with rhetorical purpose. The story ending groups did more story development planning than the story starter group, but composition quality was not significantly…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Fables, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Gilbert, Steven K. – 1996
The concept of Arithmetic Story Grammar is introduced. Arithmetic Story Grammar maintains that any equation containing a single operand tells, in and of itself, a complete story with a setting, plot, theme, and resolution. Multiple-operand equations differ from their single-operand siblings only in the number of actions undertaken and the number…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classification, Coherence, Comprehension
Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy – Academic Therapy, 1990
POSSE, an instructional procedure for a reading comprehension curriculum, structures classroom dialogue about text meaning. Students with mild handicaps predict what the story will be about, organize their knowledge, search for the text structure, summarize, and evaluate. POSSE's successful application is dependent upon effective lesson dialogue…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Dialogs (Language), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedLachs, Vivi; Wiliam, Dylan – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1998
Two studies compared the process of authoring non-linear or linear stories with HyperCard by inner-city primary school students. Found that, with minimal support, primary school students were capable of constructing hypermedia stories with complex non-linear structures and that the use of non-linear structures appeared to encourage the integration…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Hypermedia
Peer reviewedPontecorvo, Clotilde; Zucchermaglio, Cristina – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1989
Examines beginning readers' story dictation processes and products over a 16-month period. Investigates level of story structure, conventional expressions, internal responses, spatial-temporal setting, verb tenses, variety of tenses, connectives, anaphora, and dictation process adapting to a scribe. Finds overall development in ability to…
Descriptors: Dictation, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGolden, Joanne M. – Linguistics and Education, 1988
Presents the theoretical framework for examining texts in educational contexts. An actual reading lesson is analyzed in terms of the text structure and content, the nature of student-teacher interaction with the text, and post-reading discussion of the text. Tables outline the text structure and contrast teacher manual recommendations to actual…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
