Heightening Fourth-Grade Students' Sensitivity to Sources of Information for Answering Comprehension Questions.

Raphael, Taffy E.; Wonnacott, Clydie A.

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Publication Date: 1985

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Heightening Fourth-Grade Students' Sensitivity to Sources of Information for Answering Comprehension Questions.

Raphael, Taffy E.; Wonnacott, Clydie A.

Reading Research Quarterly, v20 n3 p282-96 Spr 1985

The primary question raised in two experiments was whether instructing fourth-grade students about different sources of information used when answering comprehension questions would enhance their performance on a comprehension test. The answer was yes. (HOD)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Information Sources, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Training Methods, Transfer of Training

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