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Karchmer-Klein, Rachel; Shinas, Valerie Harlow – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine how skilled adolescent readers draw on their prior knowledge of multimodality and narrative text structure when navigating an intentionally designed digital narrative text. We know that skilled middle-school readers have been taught narrative text structure and that adolescents who use the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, Navigation, Prior Learning
Penzone, Colleen C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In the late 1970's, Durkin's landmark study showed that less than 1% of elementary classroom reading instruction was dedicated to comprehension strategies because teachers were not explicit in their instruction. This qualitative study explored the types of questions posed by elementary and middle school teachers to elicit students' responses and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Teachers