The Relative Contribution of Prior Knowledge and Coherent Text to Comprehension [electronic resource] / Margaret G. McKeown and Others.

A study provided students with relevant background knowledge and tested the effects of this knowledge on two versions of a text. The two text versions were four original segments of text from a fifth-grade social studies textbook about the period leading to the American Revolution and their revised...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	McKeown, Margaret G.
Corporate Author:	University of Pittsburgh. Learning Research and Development Center
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990.
Subjects:	Content Area Reading. Grade 5. Instructional Materials. Intermediate Grades. Prior Learning. Reading Comprehension. Reading Research. Social Studies. Text Structure. Textbooks.