Sentences with phrase «passage about a baseball»

Given a common passage about baseball, so - called «low - ability» readers who knew a lot about baseball significantly out - performed so - called «high - ability» readers who knew little.

Both groups were given a passage about a baseball game to read and asked a series of comprehension questions.

[4] And of course this is particularly obvious with passages about baseball, but it's just as true of passages about kangaroo rats in the deserts or about life in Colonial times or even Tuck Everlasting.

Then they were all given a reading test with passages about baseball.

In the late 1980s, professors Donna Recht of Cardinal Stritch University and Lauren Leslie of Marquette University gave junior high school students a reading passage about baseball and then asked them questions about the passage.