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Mesmer, Heidi Anne E.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Cunningham, James W.; Kapania, Madhu – Reading Psychology, 2020
Readability systems have once more become prominent in policy and practice because of recommendations in the Common Core State Standards. This study revisited two features of current text analysis (readability) systems: their generalizability to all grade levels and to all content areas. A database that encompassed texts across the grade bands and…
Descriptors: Readability, Reading Comprehension, Prediction, Instructional Program Divisions
Pyle, Nicole; Vasquez, Ariana C.; Lignugaris/Kraft, Benjamin; Gillam, Sandra L.; Reutzel, D. Ray; Olszewski, Abbie; Segura, Hugo; Hartzheim, Daphne; Laing, Woodrow; Pyle, Daniel – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
This meta-analysis synthesizes results from expository text structure interventions designed to increase comprehension for students in kindergarten to grade 12 published between 1970 and 2013. Twenty-one studies were identified, 19 of which met criteria for a meta-analysis, including 48 studywise effect sizes that were meta-analyzed to determine…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Text Structure, Intervention, Reading Comprehension
Philippakos, Zoi A., Ed.; Graham, Steve, Ed. – Guilford Press, 2022
Writing skills are essential for success in the 21st-century school and workplace, but most classrooms devote far more time to reading instruction, with writing often addressed in isolation or excluded. In this insightful professional development resource and text, leading researchers discuss why and how to integrate writing and reading…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
Michael Hebert; Janet J. Bohaty; J. Ron Nelson; Jessica Brown – Grantee Submission, 2016
In this meta-analysis of 45 studies involving students in grades 2-12, the authors present evidence on the effects of text structure instruction on the expository reading comprehension of students. The meta-analysis was deigned to answer two sets of questions. The first set of questions examined the effectiveness of text structure instruction on…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Instruction, Effect Size, Reading Comprehension
Michael Hebert; Janet J. Bohaty; J. Ron Nelson; Jessica Brown – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
In this meta-analysis of 45 studies involving students in Grades 2-12, the authors present evidence on the effects of text structure instruction on the expository reading comprehension of students. The meta-analysis was deigned to answer 2 sets of questions. The first set of questions examined the effectiveness of text structure instruction on…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Instruction, Effect Size, Reading Comprehension
Kendeou, Panayiota; McMaster, Kristen L.; Christ, Theodore J. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Reading comprehension is multidimensional and complex. The persistent challenges children, adolescents, and even adults face with reading comprehension call for concerted efforts to develop assessments that help identify sources of difficulties and to design instructional approaches to prevent or ameliorate these difficulties. Doing so requires…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods, Reading Processes
Penzone, Colleen C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In the late 1970's, Durkin's landmark study showed that less than 1% of elementary classroom reading instruction was dedicated to comprehension strategies because teachers were not explicit in their instruction. This qualitative study explored the types of questions posed by elementary and middle school teachers to elicit students' responses and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Bohaty, Janet J.; Hebert, Michael A.; Nelson, J. Ron; Brown, Jessica A. – Reading Horizons, 2015
This systematic descriptive historical review was conducted to examine the status and trends in expository text structure instruction efficacy research for first through twelfth grade students. The analysis included sixty studies, which spanned the years 1978 to 2014. Descriptive dimensions of the research included study type, research design,…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Text Structure, Reading Writing Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Ray, Melissa N. – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
In this review of the literature we examine empirical studies designed to teach the structure strategy to increase reading comprehension of expository texts. First, we review the research that has served as a foundation for many of the studies examining the effects of text structure instruction. Text structures generally can be grouped into six…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Text Structure
Strassman, Barbara K.; MacDonald, Hillary; Wanko, Lindsay – Reading Teacher, 2010
Children ages 2-18 spend between two and four hours per day watching TV, a calculation that is even higher if DVDs, videos and the Internet are included. Although the amount of television watched by today's children has raised concerns about their literacy development, captions could hold a key to turning television into an educational asset.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Mentors, Printed Materials, Documentaries

Wright, Benjamin D.; Stenner, A. Jackson – Popular Measurement, 2000
Discusses the use of the Lexile Framework(R) in several areas. Lexiles have been established for various job groups, and they may serve as an indication of reading ability for a given job. The uses of lexiles in school and in reading education are discussed, as is the achievement of Lexile reading abilities as indicators of probable income. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Income, Occupations, Readability

Donin, Janet; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1991
Studies the comprehension processes of good and poor readers within a severe to profoundly deaf orally educated population. Supports a multiprocess model where an individual's knowledge both of text structures and of specific content areas play major roles. Shows that characteristics such as age and linguistic experience are important factors in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Models

Walker, Sue; And Others – Visible Language, 1996
Reports on the Multilingual Resources for Children Project at Reading University, United Kingdom, which examines the problems of relating and controlling dual language texts so that the reader perceives the two texts as equally important. States that the project encompassed five languages: Chinese, Gujarati, Bengali, Urdu, and Panjabi--the most…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Reader Text Relationship

Samuels, S. Jay – Reading Psychology, 1989
Argues that in the last 10 years the field of cognitive science has added much to the understanding of how to promote text comprehension. Focuses on the role of questions, text structure, and causal network theory as an approach to comprehension enhancement. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Relating Text-Processing Research to Reading and Writing Instruction for Learning Disabled Students.
Seidenberg, Pearl L. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1989
Research on text processing is reviewed including the role of text structure and summarization ability. Implications for the instruction of learning-disabled students include strategy instruction and instruction in such text processing skills as identifying main idea and identifying text structure. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension