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Elliott Kuecker – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
Reading is an integral part of scholarly practice, though we do not often discuss how our approaches to reading differ, and how these approaches may ultimately make interpretive impact on our research. This essay considers approaches to reading in light of the concepts of proximity and orientation. Though formal "close reading" is a…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reading Strategies, Reader Text Relationship, Discourse Analysis
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Schindler, Julia; Richter, Tobias – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Learning can be made more efficient when learners generate the to-be-learned text contents instead of passively receiving them. A multi-level meta-analysis was conducted to provide an overall estimate of the text generation effect's magnitude and to identify theoretically and practically relevant moderators. Overall, generation interventions…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Processes, Text Structure
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Prinz, Anja; Golke, Stefanie; Wittwer, Jörg – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
This meta-analysis investigated the extent to which relative metacomprehension accuracy can be increased by interventions that aim to support learners' use of situation-model cues as a basis for judging their text comprehension. These interventions were delayed-summary writing, delayed-keywords listing, delayed-diagram completion, self-explaining,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Metacognition, Accuracy, Reading Comprehension
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Elfrieda H. Hiebert – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Automaticity in recognizing the words in a text is fundamental to comprehension. If the number of words readers need to stop and decode exceeds their ability to retain their understanding of a narrative's plot or an expository text's description, their comprehension suffers. The conventional intervention for students who lack the automaticity to…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Öztop, Feyyaz; Nayci, Ömer – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
This research was carried out to determine whether the comprehension level differs according to the reading environment by examining the studies comparing the comprehension level according to reading from the screen and from the paper by using meta-analysis method. Meta-analysis method was used in this research. The data of the study were obtained…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship, Paper (Material), Printed Materials
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Lysaker, Judith – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2018
In this article, I consider expanding meaningfulness in literacy research by exploring the possibilities offered by a relational perspective on literacy and its study. An interdisciplinary relational perspective is outlined and used to rethink what happens when we engage in reading and writing. Questions guiding this exploration include: What…
Descriptors: Literacy, Educational Research, Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship
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Guo, Daibao; Zhang, Shuai; Wright, Katherine Landau; McTigue, Erin M. – AERA Open, 2020
Although convergent research demonstrates that well-designed graphics can facilitate readers' understanding of text, there are select situations where graphics have been shown to have no effect on learners' overall text comprehension. Therefore, the current meta-analytic study examined 39 experimental studies published between 1985 and 2018…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Test Format, Visual Aids, Pictorial Stimuli
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Deane, Paul – ETS Research Report Series, 2020
A key instructional goal of English language arts instruction is teaching students to read and interpret complex literary texts. This report reviews the literature on the development and pedagogy of literary analysis skills. It analyzes literary analysis skills as a "key practice," a bundle of disciplinary skills and strategies that form…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literary Criticism
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Daniel, Johny; Williams, Kelly J. – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
This review examined the effects of self-questioning (SQ) strategy instruction on reading comprehension outcomes for students with learning disabilities and struggling readers in Grades K-12. Our literature search, encompassing the past 53 years (1965-2018) of research, found 10 studies that fit our inclusion criteria. Reviewed studies included…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
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Ciullo, Stephen; Lo, Yu-Ling Sabrina; Wanzek, Jeanne; Reed, Deborah K. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
This research synthesis was conducted to understand the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve learning from informational text for students with learning disabilities in elementary school (K-5). The authors identified 18 studies through a comprehensive search. The interventions were evaluated to determine treatment effects and to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Effect Size, Intervention
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Channa, Mansoor Ahmed; Nordin, Zaimuariffudin Shukri; Siming, Insaf Ali; Chandio, Ali Asgher; Koondher, Mansoor Ali – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper has reviewed the previous studies on metacognitive strategies based on planning, monitoring, and evaluating in order to develop reading comprehension. The main purpose of this review in metacognition, and reading domain is to help readers to enhance their capabilities and power reading through these strategies. The researchers reviewed…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Literature Reviews
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Ray, Melissa N.; Meyer, Bonnie J. F. – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
In this review of literature we examine empirical research of individual differences in younger readers' knowledge and use of expository text structures. The goal of this review is to explore the influence of reader and text characteristics in order to better understand the instructional needs of elementary school readers. First we review research…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Knowledge Level, Expository Writing, Literature Reviews
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Pitcher, Brandy; Fang, Zhihui – Literacy, 2007
Over the past decade in the United States, levelled texts, or "little books" with finely graduated levelling of text difficulty, have regained their status as a literacy staple for beginning readers. Despite their resurgence, questions remain regarding the reliability and quality of these books. In this study, we conducted a detailed…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Reading Materials, Beginning Reading, Reader Text Relationship
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Schatzberg-Smith, Kathleen – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1987
Distinguishes between macrostructures and microstructures in text, reviews research on the comprehension of text structures, and concludes that both theory and research support the presence of a link between text structure and reading comprehension. (DMM)
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Spyridakis, Jan H.; Wenger, Michael J. – Technical Communication, 1992
Reviews models of reading performance as an organizing framework for understanding findings from empirical studies of text and reader factors. Reviews numerous empirical studies of text design and reader variables and their effects on comprehension. Aims to help readers understand this research and its implications in document design decisions.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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