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Marina Burger; Duduzile P. Zwane; Debbie A. Sanders; Kim C. Miller-Weber – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2025
Background: In South African primary schools, reading is central to curriculum delivery, with a structured three-step process: pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading. Many learners struggle with reading comprehension, which affects their academic performance. Research emphasises the importance of pre-reading for activating prior knowledge,…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Prereading Experience
Carlson, Sarah E.; Broek, Paul van den; McMaster, Kristen L. – Elementary School Journal, 2022
This study examines factors that influence readers' cognitive processing (i.e., inference generation) and the development of a mental representation of text: comprehension skill and working memory (WM). Elementary students (N = 61) participated in causal questioning conditions with narrative texts to examine text- and knowledge-based inferences…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Elementary School Students
Eve Kikas; Gintautas Silinskas; Eliis Härma – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The aim of this study was to examine which topic- and learning-related knowledge and motivational beliefs predict the use of specific deep-level learning strategies during an independent learning task. Participants included 335 Estonian fourth- and sixth-grade students who were asked to read about light processes and seasonal changes. The study…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Learning Strategies, Light, Vignettes
Beker, Katinka; van den Broek, Paul; Jolles, Dietsje – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Constructing a knowledge representation from multiple texts requires the integration of information across texts. The aim of the current study was to investigate how elementary school students integrate information across multiple text passages and, particularly, whether students use information from a prior text to improve understanding of a…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6
Zoll, Susan; Feinberg, Natasha; Saylor, Laura – Teachers College Press, 2023
Teaching reading successfully requires deep knowledge of the reading process and development, as well as the implementation of impactful reading instruction and differentiation. This book aligns Montessori didactic materials and pedagogy, developed over a century ago, with current research on reading development. Readers will gain a solid overview…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Reading Instruction
Ernesto Ortiz Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study examined the contribution a year-long professional development in the science of reading had on 10 first-grade teachers' knowledge of how reading develops and their instructional practices. Data for this research study was collected through a longitudinal interview process, from pre- and post-knowledge inventory…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
Kachorsky, Dani; Moses, Lindsey; Serafini, Frank; Hoelting, Megan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2017
As part of a year-long, classroom-based research study examining literacy instruction and development, the research team observed emerging decoders draw from a range of semiotic resources while reading picturebooks. Utilizing a case study approach, the researchers selected eight first graders to act as a representative case, and examined their…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Bulut, Aydin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study was to carry out action research to investigate reading comprehension skills when using the SQ3R reading comprehension strategy. To that end, this strategy was used for improving the reading comprehension skills of 7 primary school 4th grade students who had problems with these skills. An action plan was prepared for 3hours a…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Language Skills
Davis, Dennis S.; Huang, Becky; Yi, Tanisha – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
Previous research has identified various factors that contribute to readers' comprehension of expository texts, including strategy expertise, language proficiency, prior knowledge, and more recently, readers' beliefs about knowledge. This study addresses the need to understand the relative contributions of these predictors to readers'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Materials, Reading Materials, Reading Comprehension
Mason, Lucia; Tornatora, Maria Caterina; Pluchino, Patrik – Computers & Education, 2013
This study used eye-tracking methodology in the school setting to examine fourth graders' online processing of text and graphics while reading an illustrated science text. We were interested in identifying patterns of visual behavior, which was examined considering individual differences in reading comprehension, prior knowledge, and spatial…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Pretests Posttests, Correlation, Web Based Instruction