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Youjia Hua; Suzanne Woods-Groves; Jeremy W. Ford; Kelly A. Nobles – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching a three-step paraphrasing strategy on expository reading comprehension of young adults with intellectual disability. Ten learners from a postsecondary education program for individuals with disability participated in the study. They were randomly assigned to the control and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Mental Retardation, Reading Comprehension, Writing Skills
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Marshall, Nancy – Reading Teacher, 1983
Discusses a retelling performance checklist that uses elements of story grammar to help teachers assess comprehension in a meaningful way. (FL)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam Abdel Khalek – Online Submission, 2004
This paper reviews the recent theoretical and empirical literature relevant to metacognition and reading comprehension. The first chapter presents a definition of metacognition and considers different types of metacognitive knowledge and the interaction among these types. The second chapter is concerned with the methods of teaching…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Metacognition, Teaching Methods