Passage Summary: Older kids get a 'warm-up' boost when reading, but for younger kids, the order doesn't matter; they just find stories easier to read than random word lists.

Reasoning: Experienced readers improved on their second task regardless of the type, but beginning readers always performed better on paragraphs than lists, with no improvement based on task order.

Analysis: The paradox here is the absence of a 'practice effect' for beginning readers that is clearly present for experienced ones. While the experienced readers benefit from the act of reading itself (improving on the second task), the beginners are only influenced by the format of the text. To resolve this, look for an answer that explains why the 'warm-up' doesn't help a beginner. Perhaps beginners rely so heavily on the context of a paragraph to identify words that the benefit of practice is negligible compared to the difficulty of reading a list without context.