On Investigating Children's Transition from Narrative to Expository Discourse [electronic resource] : The Multidimensional Nature of Psychological Text Classification. Technical Report No. 195 / Rand J. Spiro and Barbara M. Taylor.

Conventional wisdom holds that many children experience difficulty when they first read expository material after spending most of their reading time with simple narratives. Unfortunately, there is little available data bearing on this belief, nor is it clear how one would go about testing the claim...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Spiro, Rand J.
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Other Authors:	Taylor, Barbara M.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980.
Subjects:	Children. Cognitive Processes. Discourse Analysis. Elementary Education. Reading Difficulties. Reading Instruction. Reading Processes. Reading Research. Research Methodology.