Research dealing with experimenter-provided and subject-generated organizational strategies is reviewed, and related to operations in reading comprehension. Comprehension differences between good and poor readers are assumed to arise from the different ways they organize intra- and inter-sentence elements. Visual imagery is singled out as an effective organizational strategy. Implications of this research are considered in the context of individual differences and their interaction with treatments.
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