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ERIC Number: EJ289462
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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Questions about a Text: What You Ask about Is What Children Learn.
Wixson, Karen K.
Reading Teacher, v37 n3 p287-93 Dec 1983
Concludes that teachers' questions influence both the sorts of inferences fifth-grade students draw from a text and how well they integrate the new information with what they already know. Argues that they learn best the things they are asked about. (FL)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology), Teacher Behavior, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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