Learning from Texts that Refute the Reader's Prior Knowledge.

Maria, Katherine; MacGinitie, Walter

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Publication Date: 1987

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Learning from Texts that Refute the Reader's Prior Knowledge.

Maria, Katherine; MacGinitie, Walter

Reading Research and Instruction, v26 n4 p222-38 Sum 1987

Describes a study of the effect of incongruent prior knowledge on fifth- and sixth-graders' text comprehension, indicating that text structures that explicitly contrasted the reader's misconception with the correct information were more effective than those that simply gave correct information. (HTH)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Grade 6, Prior Learning, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Schemata (Cognition)

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