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Maguet, McKenna Louise; Morrison, Timothy G.; Wilcox, Brad; Billen, Monica T. – Reading Psychology, 2021
Reading comprehension is the goal of reading, and making inferences is vital. Authors usually expect readers to make multiple types of inferences, including anaphoric, background knowledge, predictive, and retrospective. Common core assessments include all of these, yet instructional materials focus mostly on only one type, retrospective. This…
Descriptors: Children, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Moe, Peter Wayne – Composition Studies, 2018
In this article, I present a collection of student sentences to explore what it means to, and how a writer might, inhabit a sentence. Such inhabitation is a matter of ethos, style, and composition--a matter of a writer located grammatically within a discourse. Relying on student sentences, I challenge sentence-appreciation books and websites that…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Sentences, Sentence Structure, Reader Text Relationship
White, Sheida – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
This article presents 34 characteristics of texts and tasks ("text features") that can make continuous (prose), noncontinuous (document), and quantitative texts easier or more difficult for adolescents and adults to comprehend and use. The text features were identified by examining the assessment tasks and associated texts in the national…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reader Text Relationship, Adult Literacy
Rawson, Katherine A.; Middleton, Erica L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
A widespread theoretical assumption is that many processes involved in text comprehension are automatic, with automaticity typically defined in terms of properties (e.g., speed, effort). In contrast, the authors advocate for conceptualization of automaticity in terms of underlying cognitive mechanisms and evaluate one prominent account, the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Stimuli, Memory, Literary Genres
Morgan, Denise N.; Williams, Jeffery L. – Reading Teacher, 2007
Writers carefully include critical information in the opening lines of their chapters, but students often gloss over these beginning sentences, missing information that could help them better comprehend the text. To address this concern, the authors created a strategy that prompts students to examine the opening lines of chapters, helping readers…
Descriptors: Sentences, Learning Strategies, Reading Improvement, Reading Strategies
Dunlop, Rishma – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
"Following the Curve of the Sentence: Notes From a Reader's Diary" is comprised of excerpts from the author's Reader's Diary, using experimental writing practices that can be modeled and used by English teachers in classrooms. The Reader's Diary is a subgenre of autobiography, memoir and poetic prose essay, a flexible, hybrid form of inquiry. The…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Autobiographies, Gender Issues, Sentences

Davis-Haley, Rachel – Childhood Education, 2004
Text rendering is a method of deconstructing text that allows students to make decisions regarding the importance of the text, select the portions that are most meaningful to them, and then share it with classmates--all without fear of being ridiculed. The research on students constructing meaning from text is clear. In order for knowledge to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Reading Processes, Reader Text Relationship, Writing Processes