Comprehension: A Personal Experience in Content Area Reading.

Manolakes, George

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ERIC Number: EJ381782

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Publication Date: 1988

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Comprehension: A Personal Experience in Content Area Reading.

Manolakes, George

Reading Teacher, v42 n3 p200-02 Dec 1988

Describes how an excerpt from an electronics magazine challenged the author to examine problems in reading comprehension. Notes the sources of difficulty in understanding demanding text, and states that prior knowledge--not isolated comprehension skills--is necessary to create meaning from a text. (MM)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Schemata (Cognition)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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