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Direct linkHebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Lambert, Matthew C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Students who struggle with reading have particular trouble with expository text. Instruction in text structures has been shown to be effective for improving expository reading comprehension. However, few studies have been conducted specifically with upper elementary aged struggling readers. To address these issues, we developed a new intervention,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Reading Difficulties
Download full textHebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Lambert, Matthew C. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Students who struggle with reading have particular trouble with expository text. Instruction in text structures has been shown to be effective for improving expository reading comprehension. However, few studies have been conducted specifically with upper elementary aged struggling readers. To address these issues, we developed a new intervention,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Reading Difficulties
Stevens, Elizabeth A.; Park, Sunyoung; Vaughn, Sharon – Remedial and Special Education, 2019
This systematic review examines the effects of summarizing and main idea interventions on the reading comprehension outcomes of struggling readers in Grades 3 through 12. A comprehensive search identified 30 studies published in peer-reviewed journals between 1978 and 2016. Studies included struggling reader participants in Grades 3 through 12;…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Expository Writing
Kelso, Katrina; Whitworth, Anne; Leitão, Suze – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study aimed to profile the sublexical, lexical, and text level language skills, and cognitive processes of a sub-group of children with poor reading comprehension known as poor comprehenders. An assessment protocol was developed to assess each of the components from Perfetti and Stafura's Reading Systems Framework. A comprehensive profile was…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Profiles
Haria, Priti; MacArthur, Charles; Santoro, Lana Edwards – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of teaching fifth grade students with reading difficulties a genre-specific strategy for summarizing and critically analyzing written arguments. In addition, this research explored whether learning this particular reading strategy informed the students' ability to write effective and…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Grade 5
Peer reviewedVosniadou, Stella; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Two experiments studied whether 110 first, third, and fifth graders' difficulties in detecting inconsistencies in text were related to their failure to represent inconsistent propositions in memory or failure to compare them although remembered. Shortcomings were related more to difficulties in forming mental representations than in comparing…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Memory
