A Procedure for Assessing the Richness of Retellings.
Pi A. Irwin, Judy Nichols Mitchell · The Journal of Reading · 1983
purposes. Hence, interest in evaluating the quality of retellings in the most appropriate manner has increased. This interest has centered on just what it is in a retelling that indicates high, average, or low reader comprehension. Clearly, retellings are as various as the readers making them. Stated simply, then, we asked two questions. What characteristics of a retelling distinguish different levels of understanding of the text? Which retellings are superiorthose in which the reader restates the passage content in accurate, precise detail or those in which the reader makes in-