10-second reviews: reading expository vs. narrative text; homes that fostered literacy, reading problems, college listening course, responding to literature.
Abstracts:
Finds that good and poor readers (7th and 8th grade) exhibited more difficulty comprehending expository text than narrative text. MM Ballantyne, 1993, p. 419. ………. Homes that fostered literacy by valuing reading and writing produced more successful readers and writers than did homes that did not (as determined by traditional academic standards). DC Greene, 1993, p. 420. ………. 7 of 8 principals believed factors outside of school cause children’s reading problems. AA Lanning, 1993, p. 421. ………. Taking a listening course at the college level had no effect on students’ academic performance. CW Maugham, 1993, p. 421. ………. Finds rich content of literary talk when children were afforded opportunities to relate their prior knowledge and life experiences to books being read. KJ Wells, 1993, p. 424.
Source: “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” Research in the Teaching of English (December 1994), 418-436.
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