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This investigation attempted to determine if differences in reading comprehension would result from three grapho-syntactic organizations. Good and poor comprehenders in fourth and fifth grades, matched for sex, grade level, and vocabulary score on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, completed three cloze tests which conformed to three grapho-syntactic organizations. The dependent variable was the number of correct responses achieved on the cloze tests.The results indicated that the grapho-syntactic organization which divided sentences into meaningful units and one which divided sentences into random units were comprehended significantly better than was the regular paragraph format for all groups of subjects.The results of the present study support a conclusion that some young readers may profit from pre-organized reading material. The syntactic nature of the unit employed appears to be less critical than the fact that a unit smaller than the sentence is employed. |
