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American Annals of the Deaf

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Ewoldt, Carolyn	1
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Constructing Meaning from Narrative Text: Cognitive Processes of Deaf Children.

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Schirmer, Barbara R. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1993

The predictions that 48 students with deafness in grades 4-8 made while reading narrative text were analyzed to explore the influence of the children's expectations for text structure and content on reading comprehension. Findings indicated that interacting at a deep level with narrative text was more related to reader characteristics than to…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Expectation, Intermediate Grades

The Ability of Deaf Students to Understand Text: A Comparison of the Perceptions of Teachers and Students.

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Ewoldt, Carolyn; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992

Interviews with 16 deaf high school students and 9 teachers found that teachers underestimated the extent of students' independent comprehension of 3 types of text. The text perceived to be most difficult by both teachers and students was the most interesting to students (but not teachers) and fostered use of a greater variety of metacognitive…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Difficulty Level, High Schools