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Toward a model of children's story comprehension.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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The Role of Discussion Questions in Children's Story Comprehension
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Role of Causal Relationships in the Story Comprehension of Children
… examine the role of causal relationships in the comprehension of stories by children using a model for comprehending events as causal relationships (Trabasso, Secco, van den Broek, 1983). Although causal relations play a role in earlier story grammars, this causal model differs in its …
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Journaling as a Tool to Improve Story Comprehension for Kindergarten Students.
<p>This study investigated story journaling to enhance story comprehension. Eighteen kindergarten children participated in this six-week study with the teacher reading a total of twenty-four stories to the class. The class was randomly divided into Group A and Group B, with 3 focus participants …
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Effectiveness of Story Enactments Versus Art Projects in Facilitating Preschool Children's Story Comprehension
… was twofold: (a) to compare preschool children's comprehension of a story after either enacting the story or participating in an art project, and (b) to qualitatively describe the children's interactions during the more interactive story enactment instruction. Twenty children from two Head Start …
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Storytelling and Story Reading: A Comparison of Effects on Children's Memory and Story Comprehension.
<p>For years, storytellers have been going to schools to share stories with children. However, to date only limited research has been done on the effects of storytelling on children’s learning. This project was part of an ongoing study involving several researchers. In this portion of the project, …
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The effects of instruction clarifying story characters' internal states on primary students' story comprehension
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Validation of the ‘Victim Empathy Response Assessment (ii)’ (VERA-ii) with a Non-offending Adult Male Community Sample
… Maudsley Violence Questionnaire and the Story Comprehension Task. Wilcoxon signed-ranks tests demonstrated a significant difference between cognitive and affective empathy and SRL from mean baseline to mean total SRL after viewing the VERA(ii). However, Spearman’s Rho Correlations found …
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The Effectiveness of Explicit Storybook Comprehension Instruction for Improving Preschool Children’s Narrative Comprehension Skills
… shared book reading to facilitate children’s story comprehension abilities. To close this gap, the present study examined the effectiveness of implementing explicit storybook comprehension instruction in a single-case study with seven preschool-age participants. Using a combined repeated …
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Pragmatic ability in children with early onset brain damage and children with pragmatic language impairnent
… problems. The three groups all had problems with story comprehension and narrative ability. In study III literal and inferential understanding were analyzed. No significant differences occurred between the CP group and the SBH group. The PLI group made fewer inferences and had significantly less …
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A study to determine degree of inferred story-character identification and its resultant effect in reading comprehension in selected multiethnic reading texts
… inferred identification and two types of reading comprehension, molar and specific, at the third grade level. Subjects for this study were selected from six schools located in four midwestern urban centers. The 121 Negro and Caucasian children who participated in the study attended schools …
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Story experience in a virtual San storytelling environment : a cultural heritage application for children and young adults
This dissertation explores virtual storytelling for conveying cultural stories effectively. We set out to investigate: (1) the strengths and/or weaknesses of VR as a storytelling medium; (2) the use of a culturally familiar introductory VB to preface a VB presenting traditional storytelling; (3) …
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An Exploratory Study of Involving Parents in E-book Joint Reading with Voice Agents
… the system supported children's engagement and story comprehension. Parents reported that they found value in the interactivity of the system and enjoyed a participatory, joint reading experience, where both they and their children could choose which characters to embody. These findings offer …
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An exploration of the impact of picture book illustrations on the comprehension skills and vocabulary development of emergent readers
… observed emergent readers as they demonstrated comprehension and retelling skills both with and without the aid of illustrations that would normally accompany a story. Observations and informal, descriptive assessment of indirect vocabulary development in relation to the books used in the study …
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Evaluating the utility of the test of narrative language for use with deaf children via American Sign Language
… the standards of the test and examined: factual story comprehension, story retell abilities (and inclusion of target terms), story generation from a picture sequence, and story generation from a single picture scene. This study found that though the hearing group outperformed the deaf group on …