Dispelling the Mystery about Comprehension: Kintsch's Model and Implications for Instruction.

Richgels, Donald J.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Dispelling the Mystery about Comprehension: Kintsch's Model and Implications for Instruction.

Richgels, Donald J.

Reading Horizons, v24 n3 p172-78 Spr 1984

Argues that the mystery surrounding comprehension development can be dispelled by an understanding of schema theory and linguistic theory and especially by an understanding of W. Kintsch's model of comprehension, which draws from those bodies of theory. Describes teaching methods based upon Kintsch's model. (FL)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Linguistic Theory, Models, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Schemata (Cognition)

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