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Schroeder, Sascha – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
This study investigated the reading behavior of 15-year-old students while reading texts and answering corresponding multiple-choice questions. The availability of the texts during question answering was manipulated experimentally. Allocation of resources to several cognitive processes at the word, sentence, and text level was measured by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Verbal Ability, Time
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Vidal-Abarca, Eduardo; Mana, Amelia; Gil, Laura – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
The goal of this study is to analyze the self-regulation processes present in task-oriented reading activities. In the 1st experiment, we examined the following self-regulation processes in the context of answering questions about an available text: (a) monitoring the comprehension of the question, (b) self-regulating the search process, and (c)…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Metacognition, Grade 8, Task Analysis
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Soares, Lina Bell; Wood, Karen – Reading Teacher, 2010
In a time of increasing plurality in today's public schools, it is essential that students become critically competent citizens by examining current and historical social justice issues. The purpose of this manuscript is to provide the research, theory, and practice for teachers to help students take a critical stance as they read and respond to…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Global Approach, Social Studies, Public Schools
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McCollin, Michelle; O'Shea, Doris J.; McQuiston, Kathleen – Preventing School Failure, 2009
Secondary-level students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds who struggle with reading need strategies for aligning new information with their previous knowledge as well as for obtaining and retaining essential information from the text. Important components of all secondary literacy support must include instruction in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Secondary Education, Vocabulary Development
Hakuta, Kenji – Council of the Great City Schools, 2011
In developing a tool to help address academic language development, the author and his team began by identifying the challenges of presenting science text to English Language Learners and students who struggle with reading. The goal was to balance the practical and logistical challenges of identifying, teaching, and learning academic and content…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Vocabulary, Science Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Lesnick, Alice – Ethics and Education, 2006
This interpretive study proposes a framework with which to explore the ethical significance of classroom-based literacy practices. Overly narrow views of literature as a source of role models or moral precepts take insufficient account of the complexity of text and experience. Through analyses of telling examples from student writing and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Literacy Education, Ethical Instruction, Multicultural Education