When reading narratives and attending to messages, multitasking marginally increased reading time but comprehension was not significantly affected.
The implicit imagery context created by reading narratives had a stronger impact on creativity than that of explicit imagery creation context that did not involve of narrative comprehension.
In the context of reading narratives, global coherence can be supported by memory-based activation (McKoon & Ratcliff, 1998; Myers & O'Brien, 1998).
Are kids reading narratives that miss diverse perspectives?
While teaching literature in BiH, I fought my own single story by reading narratives from all perspectives.
His first major work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), was an authoritative and widely read narrative based on Haley's interviews with the Black Muslim spokesman.
Wordless except for their often useful titles, and gray except for their startling bits of painted colors, these pieces fully exploit and usually satisfy our tendency to read narrative into every image that comes our way, a skill developed in no small part by watching movies.
For example, if students read narrative information with the goal to get entertained, they may generate less counterarguments than they would if their goal was to get informed.
In one of the 19th century's most widely read narratives, 1845's "The Narrative and Life of Frederick Douglass," Douglass writes of a former overseer: He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding.
Perhaps this explains some of the adult resistance to Dahl's books: as parenting has become more self-consciously "nice," with less firm divisions between grownups and children, it's unsettling to read narratives of unbridled childish resentment.
