Arthur Glenberg

At the time of this project, 38 percent of U.S. 4th graders could not read and understand a paragraph in a children's book, and the percentages for struggling minority students and students from low-income families were even higher. In this project, the researchers aimed to use advances in cognitive science and the study of language development to create and pilot test an intervention to enhance young children's reading comprehension. They proposed a series of cognitive studies to build the ...