Enacted Reading Comprehension: Using Bodily Movement to Aid the Comprehension of Abstract Text Content.

We report a design study that assessed the feasibility of Enacted Reading Comprehension (ERC), an intervention designed to teach 3rd and 4th grade students (n = 40 and 25, respectively) to use gestures to understand an increasingly abstract set of texts. Students were taught to use gestures to under...

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Main Authors: Michael P Kaschak, Carol M Connor, Jennifer L Dombek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5249083?pdf=render