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Hahn, Joan M.; Goldman, Susan R. – 1983
Developmental differences in summaries of expository texts were examined for fourth and sixth grade students in two experiments. Experiment 1 used texts that had a description content structure whereas Experiment 2 texts had a thesis/evidence content structure. Manipulation of the presence or absence of the topic sentence allowed the examination…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Intermediate Grades
Renaud, Aldeo – 1980
A study was conducted to evaluate the level of difficulty of textbooks (French and Sciences) written in French for use with sixth grade students. A cloze test was administered to a sample of sixth grade students in two francophone districts in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, and the Henry readability formula was applied to the same texts.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, French, Grade 6
