Does Text Structure/Summarization Instruction Facilitate Learning from Expository Text?.

Armbruster, Bonnie|And Others

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Publication Date: 1987

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Does Text Structure/Summarization Instruction Facilitate Learning from Expository Text?

Armbruster, Bonnie; And Others

Reading Research Quarterly, v22 n3 p331-46 Sum 1987

As measured by responses to a main-idea essay question and by written summaries of two passages, students' ability to abstract the macrostructure of problem/solution text read independently was improved by the use of structure training. (FL)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Theory Practice Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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