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EJ345187 CS733585

Title: Effects of Listening to Series Stories on First Graders'
Comprehension and Use of Language.
Author(s): Feitelson, Dina; And Others
Source: Research in the Teaching of English, v20 n4 p339-56 Dec 1986
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1987

Investigates the effects of reading a series-format, many-volumed story to disadvantaged first graders. Results indicate that children who had been read to outscored children in the control classes on measures of decoding, reading comprehension, and active use of language. (SRT)

Descriptors: Child Language; *Decoding (Reading); Foreign Countries; Language Acquisition; *Language Usage; *Listening Comprehension; Primary Education; *Reading Aloud to Others; *Reading Comprehension; *Reading Research
Identifiers: *Israel