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ERIC Number: EJ310811
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Teaching High School Students to Identify Main Ideas in Expository Text.
Sjostrom, Colleen Langdon; Hare, Victoria Chou
Journal of Educational Research, v78 n2 p114-18 Nov-Dec 1984
Systematic main idea instruction was delivered to minority high school students while a control group received instruction in vocabulary development. Those students who received main idea instruction performed better at identifying explict and main ideas in paragraphs and at restating and summarizing. General comprehension performance was not improved. (Author/DF)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, High Schools, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Main Idea