This experimental study was designed to examine the value and ease of use of retelling in a contemporary classroom setting. Students in two intact sixth grade reading groups, one made up of proficient readers and the other of less-proficient readers, participated in the study.In 1997, Moss undertook a qualitative study that continued her work with childrena#39;s retelling of expository text. ... To test the theory, Moss had 20 research assistants individually read aloud a book to 20 children in a first grade classroom. ... When statewide assessments began to use retelling to measure comprehension, 30.
|Title||:||The Effects of Substituting Retelling for Basal Reader Comprehension Instruction on Students in a Sixth Grade Reading Program|
|Author||:||Donna M. Johnson|
|Publisher||:||ProQuest - 2008|