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Analysis of Theoretical Framework

(Pearson , 1990 br

. 3 . Teachers can prepare their students to absorb new materials by using organizers that attempt to tap old experiences and knowledge that can specifically be related to the new reading material . They can enhance understanding of new material , by preparing their students using stories , pictures , or processes that can trigger relevant schemata connections

Advance organizers are believed to improve reading comprehension (Pearson , 1990 ,

. 3 . Advance organizers provide the anchor between the new ship of ideas , to the embedded ocean of ideas and experiences of the learners . They

act to scaffold understanding of new material , so that superordinate structures can be analyzed and interpreted properly through available schemata . Advance organizers can be quite useful for content area reading , because of the conceptual load they contain . There are several kinds of advance organizers , with mixed results on their effectiveness in improving reading comprehension and retention . Social studies particularly present diverse unknown concepts and s , which is why Pearson used this subject to understand the impact of organizers on reading comprehension

Pearson reviewed literature and discovered that of them compared the effectiveness of graphic organizers to one another . She decided to compare the impact of three organizers on reading comprehension- verbal concept organizer , a graphic organizer , and a problematic situation- and to also compare their results with a control class that used no organizer , using a specific reading selection . She wanted to know , in particular , if any specific advance organizer is more effective than another . She also examined the superiority of advance organizers to using no advance organizers at all . These research aims led to her two research questions . These research questions test the schemata theory 's primary contention that providing a framework for comprehending new text can be a strategic tool in improving comprehension and recall better than...

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