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Best, Rachel M.; Rowe, Michael; Ozuru, Yasuhiro; McNamara, Danielle S. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2005
Many students from elementary school through college encounter difficulty understanding their science textbooks, regardless of whether they have language disorders. This article discusses some of the particular difficulties associated with science text comprehension and possible remedies for facilitating and enhancing comprehension of challenging…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Sciences, Reading Comprehension, Readability

Irwin, Judith Westphal – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
Linguistic cohesion involves the semantic and syntactic relationships that link sentences together. Research on linguistic cohesion is related to readability and to developmental and ability-level issues in reading/writing. Instructional strategies for low-ability readers/writers include predicting comprehension problems through cohesion analysis…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis