The Effect of Headings on Children's Recall From Prose Text

S ummary . One hundred and seventy‐five children studied a short passage in one of four conditions—control, passage with title, passage with headings in the form of statements, and passage with headings in the form of questions. The results showed that the passages with headings were recalled significantly better than the control passage or the passage with a title, on both immediate and long‐term recall (14 days later). In addition, low ability children profited best from the text with headings in the form of questions.