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Direct linkPalincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Schutz, Kristine M. – Theory Into Practice, 2011
This article revisits the rich theoretical and empirical literatures that undergird strategy instruction, with the goal of identifying a principled approach to the teaching of strategies to enhance reading and learning with text. Its purpose is to examine the question of why strategy instruction, as enacted in practice, might raise concerns among…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Research, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Fox, Emily – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This article considers the role of reader characteristics in processing and learning from informational text, as revealed in think-aloud research. A theoretical framework for relevant aspects of readers' processing and products was developed. These relevant aspects included three attentional foci for processing (comprehension, monitoring, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning, Goal Orientation
Almasi, Janice F.; Garas-York, Keli; Shanahan, Lynn – Elementary School Journal, 2006
This study examined how the report of the National Reading Panel (NRP) in 2000 might have differed if qualitative research had been included in their examination of text comprehension instruction. Electronic and hand searches yielded 12 qualitative studies meeting criteria for inclusion in the study. Each of the studies was read and coded to…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedSchiefele, Ulrich – Scientific Studies of Reading, 1999
Clarifies the concepts of personal and situational interest and their relation to motivation. Presents evidence for substantial relations between interest and text learning. Finds these relations appear to be stronger for deep-level learning than surface-level learning and seem to be largely independent of prior knowledge and cognitive ability.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interests
Download full textArmbruster, Bonnie B. – 1988
This article discusses three major reasons why children who can decode the stories in their basal readers may still have problems reading content area textbooks. The reasons include: (1) lack of prerequisite knowledge (including content, discourse, and strategic knowledge); (2) poorly written textbooks; and (3) negative classroom experiences in…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Oral Reading
Peer reviewedNorris, Stephen P.; Phillips, Linda M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Challenges the widely endorsed practice of activating relevant knowledge prior to reading. Outlines a perspectival (perspective-relative) view of reading and suggests that this view provides a means to make coherent sense of interpretations. Concludes that having specific knowledge is not the main desideratum in interpreting texts--the main…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Higher Education, Learning Processes
