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Direct linkWhitney, Patricia – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
A population of students attending a rural elementary school (grades one to five) in the state of Washington participated in literacy workshops for ten weeks. The literacy workshops took place during school time from 1:25 to 2:25, Monday through Thursday. There were a total of 21 groups (based on ability and age) ranging in size from 11 to 27…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Rural Schools, Program Effectiveness, Literacy Education
Geiger, John F.; Millis, Keith K. – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
The present study examined the unique contributions of readers' goal and text structure on comprehension. In Experiment 1, participants read procedural and descriptive passages to perform the procedures, summarize the passages, or to answer questions. The perform goal showed highest comprehension, with no difference due to text type. In Experiment…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Higher Education, College Students
Horner, Sherri L. – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
This study investigated the effects of observational learning on preschoolers' use of a questioning technique, attention to print, and knowledge of the alphabet. Preschoolers who observed a model ask questions asked more questions during a shared book episode than did children who did not observe a model ask questions. Children who observed a…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Learning Strategies, Prereading Experience, Alphabets
Ramos-Sanchez, Jose Luis; Cuadrado-Gordillo, Isabel – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
This article presents the results of a quasi-experimental study of whether there exists a causal relationship between spoken language and the initial learning of reading/writing. The subjects were two matched samples each of 24 preschool pupils (boys and girls), controlling for certain relevant external variables. It was found that there was no…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
Cassady, Jerrell C.; Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
Following research on phonological awareness development, this study explores children's acquisition of blending skills using three types of stimuli: body-coda, onset-rime, and phonemes. The results demonstrated that kindergarten children consistently gained proficiency for blending body-coda stimuli prior to onset-rime stimuli and phonemes. The…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Young Children, Phonemes, Kindergarten
Britt, M. Anne; Sommer, Jodie – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
Students are often asked to integrate information derived from reading multiple documents into a consistent story or model. Based on models of comprehending individual text, we predict that the structure and accessibility of earlier texts should influence one's ability to integrate a new text with previously learned material. In two experiments,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Textbooks, Cognitive Processes
Larson, Meredith; Britt, M. Anne; Larson, Aaron A. – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
In two experiments, we examine university students' ability to comprehend authentic argumentative texts and factors that influence their application of this skill. Participants read several relatively lengthy arguments and identified the main claim and reasons. Experiment 1 shows that participants are not skilled at identifying key elements from…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, College Students, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse
