This article also was derived from Bob Jiménez’s dissertation. It provided qualitative case studies of a successful Latina student’s reading comprehension strategies in English compared to those of a less successful Latino student and a successful Anglo student’s reading comprehension strategies.… Read the rest
Category: Articles & Chapters
Toward a Theory of Reading Comprehension Instruction
Pearson, P. D., & Spiro, R. J. (1980). Toward a theory of reading comprehension instruction. Topics in Language Disorders, 1(1), 71-88.
Rand Spiro and I wrote this piece over a period of a couple of years in 1978-80, building off my earlier accounts of the utility of schema theory and Rand’s characterization of the ways in which Schema Theory was able to explain the typical roadblocks that kids run into when trying to render text meaningful.… Read the rest
First Big Time Publication of Dissertation Work
Finished the D in 1969 but did not get it published until 1974-75 in Reading Research Quarterly. That’s a long story that is told in a later piece with Kate Frankel in 2013 or so.
Pearson, P. D. (1974-75). The effects of grammatical complexity on children’s comprehension, recall and conception of semantic relations. … Read the rest
Early Articles in my Career
This is the first article I ever published. I like to say that I was the “l” in “et al”
Bormuth, J. R., Carr, J. W., Manning, J., & Pearson, P. D. (1970). Children’s comprehension of between- and within-sentence syntactic structures. … Read the rest