TY - JOUR
T1 - Activity and imagined activity can enhance young children's reading comprehension
AU - Glenberg, Arthur M.
AU - Gutierrez, Tiana
AU - Levin, Joel R.
AU - Japuntich, Sandra
AU - Kaschak, Michael P.
PY - 2004/9
Y1 - 2004/9
N2 - The Indexical Hypothesis suggests a new method for enhancing children's reading comprehension. Young readers may not consistently "index,ω or map, words to the objects the words represent. Consequently, these readers fail to derive much meaning from the text. The instructional method involves manipulating toy objects referred to in the text (e.g., a barn, a tractor, a horse, in a text about a farm) to simulate the actions described in the text. Correctly manipulating the objects forces indexing and facilitates the derivation of meaning. Both actual manipulation and imagined manipulation resulted in markedly better (compared with rereading) memory for and comprehension of the text material, thereby lending strong support to the Indexical Hypothesis.
AB - The Indexical Hypothesis suggests a new method for enhancing children's reading comprehension. Young readers may not consistently "index,ω or map, words to the objects the words represent. Consequently, these readers fail to derive much meaning from the text. The instructional method involves manipulating toy objects referred to in the text (e.g., a barn, a tractor, a horse, in a text about a farm) to simulate the actions described in the text. Correctly manipulating the objects forces indexing and facilitates the derivation of meaning. Both actual manipulation and imagined manipulation resulted in markedly better (compared with rereading) memory for and comprehension of the text material, thereby lending strong support to the Indexical Hypothesis.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-0663.96.3.424
DO - 10.1037/0022-0663.96.3.424
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:4544347158
SN - 0022-0663
VL - 96
SP - 424
EP - 436
JO - Journal of Educational Psychology
JF - Journal of Educational Psychology
IS - 3
ER -