"How do you know this answer?" - Children's use of text data and general knowledge in story comprehension

Reading and Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 7-9, 2005, Pages 687-713

  Brandão, Ana Carolina Perrusi ^a,b   Oakhill, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Justifications for answers; Prior knowledge; Text comprehension; Text lookbacks; Young readers

Indexed keywords

EID: 28344439264     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-005-5600-x     Document Type: Article

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