Helping Parents to Read Expository Literature to Their Children: Promoting Main-Idea and Detail Understanding.

Warren, Lynn; Fitzgerald, Jill

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ERIC Number: EJ548824

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Publication Date: 1997

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Helping Parents to Read Expository Literature to Their Children: Promoting Main-Idea and Detail Understanding.

Warren, Lynn; Fitzgerald, Jill

Reading Research and Instruction, v36 n4 p341-60 Sum 1997

Explores whether either of two sorts of individual work with parents in reading expository texts to their third-grade children would help children's understanding of new texts. Suggests that work with parents which specified how to highlight main ideas and details had moderately positive effects, while nonspecific work with parents had no similar effects. (PA)

Descriptors: Grade 3, Parents as Teachers, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research

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Language: English

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