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Peer reviewedPurnell, Kenneth N.; Solman, Robert T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Presents five experiments examining the use of illustrations in the comprehension of technical material by students of good to very good reading ability. Concludes that technical content which lends itself to presentation as an illustration will be comprehended better as an illustration than as text and will be comprehended best of all if…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Foreign Countries, Geography, Illustrations
Peer reviewedLinderholm, Tracy; Everson, Michelle Gaddy; van den Brock, Paul; Mischinski, Maureen; Crittenden, Alex; Samuels, Jay – Cognition and Instruction, 2000
Investigated the effect of causal structure revisions to school texts on the comprehension of more- and less- skilled undergraduates. Found that readers at both skill levels benefited from the revisions but only for the difficult text. (JPB)
Descriptors: Readability, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedBeck, Isabel L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Uses a cognitive processing perspective to revise fifth grade social studies texts, to describe those revisions, and to demonstrate their effects empirically. Finds that students reading the revised text recalled more material and answered more questions correctly than did those reading the original text. Concludes that a text-processing approach…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Grade 4, Grade 5
