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Liebfreund, Meghan D.; Conradi, Kristin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This study was conducted to examine the factors that influence informational text comprehension and to determine how these vary for students with higher and lower component skills. The sample included 177 students in grades 3-5. Regression analyses were used to predict informational text comprehension with decoding efficiency, vocabulary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Componential Analysis, Nonfiction, Grade 3
Warren, Beth – 1986
A study examined student abilities to integrate semantically related propositions; and identified sources of comprehension difficulty for the unskilled reader. It also examined the influence of two types of relations (causal and adversative) and two types of connectives (conjunctions and verbs) on readers' comprehension, on-line integration of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Decoding (Reading), Error Patterns, High Schools