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Direct linkReese Butterfuss; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Ellen Orcutt; Panayiota Kendeou; Danielle S. McNamara – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Readers often struggle to identify the main ideas in expository texts. Existing research and instruction provide some guidance on how to encourage readers to identify main ideas. However, there is substantial variability in how main ideas are operationalized and how readers are prompted to identify main ideas. This variability hinders…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Best Practices
Schmitz, Anke; Gräsel, Cornelia; Rothstein, Björn – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study raises the question what makes school texts comprehensible by analyzing whether students' genre expectations about literary or expository texts moderate the impact of different forms of text cohesion on reading comprehension, even when the texts are similar regarding their genre. 754 students (Grade 9) from comprehensive schools read…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Connected Discourse
Davis, Dennis S.; Neitzel, Carin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study describes the sense-making behaviors of sixth- and seventh-grade students (n = 46 dyads) as they read and discussed expository articles in print and digital formats. Most dyads approached the digital text as if it were static and linear, despite the availability of hyperlinks. Reading through (or covering) the text was the most commonly…
Descriptors: Intervals, Reading Achievement, Multiple Choice Tests, Prior Learning
