According to Brown and Palinscar's research comparing the effectiveness of several different methods of teaching reading comprehension, which produced the largest pretest-to-posttest gains in reading comprehension?

a. reciprocal teaching
b. explicit instruction
c. modeling
d. all produced approximately the same effect


A

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