... focus questions, and finally wrote down predictions before reading the passage. Based on his finding, Hudson concluded that the visuals may have facilitated reading comprehension because they ... combination of text and visuals elicits beneficial effects in terms of comprehension of the material. Visuals not only offer additional contextual information to facilitate comprehension, perhaps ... illustrations on students’ comprehension of geography, Reading Research Quarterly, 26 (1991), 277. [27] R.W. Kullhavy, B.J. Lee, L.C. Caterino, Conjoint retention of maps and related discourse, Contemporary...