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Li, Mengyi; Murphy, P. Karen; Firetto, Carla M. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Although there is a rich literature on the role of text genre and structure on students' literal comprehension, more research is needed regarding the role of these text features on students' high-level comprehension as evidenced in their small-group discussions. As such, the present study examined the effects of text genre (i.e., narrative and…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Text Structure, Grade 4, Grade 5
Wijekumar, Kausalai; Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Lei, Puiwa; Cheng, Weiyi; Ji, Xuejun; Joshi, R. M. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2017
Reading and comprehending content area texts require learners to effectively select and encode with hierarchically strategic memory structures in order to combine new information with prior knowledge. Unfortunately, evidence from state and national tests shows that children fail to successfully navigate the reading comprehension challenges they…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Memory, Expository Writing