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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An Instructional Strategy for Helping Readers Identify the Gist in Expository Text
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe objective of this two-week instructional study was to improve high school students' comprehension of biology text materials through use of an explicit instructional strategy. The Topic/Subtopic Strategy is a two-step procedure designed to enable readers to recognize relationships among key ideas in text by engaging readers in the active process of evaluating and synthesizing text segments. The Strategy emerged in the attempt to create a practical tool for helping readers discriminate between more important and less important ideas represented in text.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Samson, Karen Margolis
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8218557
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68810