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Enhancing Older Adults' Reading Comprehension.

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Kemper, Susan; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1993

Investigates older adults' reading comprehension skills through syntactic measures and measures of sentence content. Analyzes the apparent reading difficulties of older adults. Provides guidelines for the preparation of prose materials for older readers. (HB)

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Older Adults

Scratching Below the Surface Structure: Exploring the Usefulness of Story Grammars.

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Weaver, Phyllis A.; Dickinson, David K. – Discourse Processes, 1982

Examines the story recall of normal and dyslexic readers in relation to story grammar categories and suggests that dyslexic students do not have significant deficiencies in use of such categories. Discusses the results in light of the need for considering multiple processing levels and as indicating that story grammars may be of limited diagnostic…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension