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ERIC Number: EJ349000
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Five Ways to Assess Readers' Prior Knowledge.
Holmes, Betty C.; Roser, Nancy L.
Reading Teacher, v40 n7 p646-49 Mar 1987
Discusses five ways to determine the amount and quality of prior knowledge children bring to a topic: (1) free recall tasks, (2) word association tasks, (3) structured questions, (4) recognition tasks, and (5) unstructured discussion. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Theory Practice Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Language: English
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