Publication Date
In 2025 | 1 |
Since 2024 | 1 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 2 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 8 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 11 |
Descriptor
Prereading Experience | 13 |
Prior Learning | 13 |
Reading Comprehension | 13 |
Teaching Methods | 9 |
Reading Instruction | 6 |
Second Language Instruction | 6 |
Second Language Learning | 6 |
Reading Tests | 5 |
Foreign Countries | 4 |
Language Tests | 4 |
Vocabulary Development | 4 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Reports - Research | 10 |
Journal Articles | 9 |
Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 2 |
Tests/Questionnaires | 2 |
Guides - Non-Classroom | 1 |
Numerical/Quantitative Data | 1 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 6 |
Postsecondary Education | 6 |
Elementary Education | 3 |
Early Childhood Education | 1 |
Grade 6 | 1 |
Intermediate Grades | 1 |
Kindergarten | 1 |
Middle Schools | 1 |
Preschool Education | 1 |
Primary Education | 1 |
Audience
Practitioners | 1 |
Teachers | 1 |
Location
Australia | 1 |
California | 1 |
Florida | 1 |
Georgia | 1 |
Iran | 1 |
Iraq | 1 |
Massachusetts | 1 |
Missouri | 1 |
New Mexico | 1 |
New York | 1 |
Ohio | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Clinical Evaluation of… | 1 |
Early Childhood Longitudinal… | 1 |
Woodcock Johnson Tests of… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Marina Burger; Duduzile P. Zwane; Debbie A. Sanders; Kim C. Miller-Weber – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2025
Background: In South African primary schools, reading is central to curriculum delivery, with a structured three-step process: pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading. Many learners struggle with reading comprehension, which affects their academic performance. Research emphasises the importance of pre-reading for activating prior knowledge,…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Prereading Experience
Snead, William R.; Joseph, Manjula; Capriotiti, Michael; Saminatahn, Swega; Parewa, Abhinav; Thao, Chinhuor; Belogortsev, Aleksandr – Online Submission, 2023
This research study sought to determine whether pre-reading assignments have an impact on a student's academic performance. Learning a new topic which oftentimes seems foreign is never easy. However, reading a short article or reviewing a slide-show presentation on the lecture topic before the lecture happens (otherwise known as a pre-reading…
Descriptors: Prereading Experience, Assignments, Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement
Karami, Amirreza – Educational Practice and Theory, 2020
This theoretical review is an overview of three important theories: schema theory, information-processing theory, and sociocultural theory. Second/foreign language teachers need to familiarize themselves with these theories if they want to teach culturally unfamiliar texts more successfully in their language classrooms. Although each of these…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
Kaefer, Tanya – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
Previous research suggests that activating background knowledge immediately prior to read-alouds in Kindergarten is an important strategy for improving children's learning (e.g. Cervetti & Hiebert, 2015). But, because children's background knowledge varies considerably at the individual level, teachers are also often providing relevant…
Descriptors: Prereading Experience, Reading Comprehension, Story Reading, Kindergarten
Velásquez, Edna – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
This study explores the effect of prior discipline-related knowledge in reading comprehension for two groups of students of Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL). The first group (G1), had 22 students enrolled in a general Spanish course and the second (G2), had 18 students enrolled in a course of Spanish for medical professions. The aim was to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Spanish, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning
Bråten, Ivar; Johansen, Roy-Petter; Strømsø, Helge I. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
This study compared the effects of two brief prereading instructional practices--hands-on activities and prior knowledge activation--on sixth-graders' intrinsic motivation for reading a text and reading comprehension. Both hands-on activities and prior knowledge activation substantially improved reading comprehension relative to a control…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Prior Learning, Metacognition
Irgatoglu, Aydan – Online Submission, 2018
This paper reports an action research study which aimed to avoid the use of mother tongue in reading comprehension activities. To this end, an action research study was designed and conducted with 30 elementary level students studying at the Preparatory school of Baskent University. The study was conducted in the first term of 2016-2017 academic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Noori, Bushra Saadoon Mohammed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study aims at measuring the amount of the effect of the reader's background knowledge on performance in reading comprehension tests through the assessment of information gained in reading comprehension (RC) tests across-four testing techniques, short answer questions ,true-false items, multiple-choice items, and cloze test and re-test. This…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chiang, Hanley; Walsh, Elias; Shanahan, Timothy; Gentile, Claudia; Maccarone, Alyssa; Waits, Tiffany; Carlson, Barbara; Rikoon, Samuel – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
Reading comprehension--the ability to understand the meaning of text--is a foundational ability that enables children to learn in school and throughout life. Children who struggle with reading comprehension in the third or fourth grade are at high risk for dropping out of school, with detrimental effects on their future employment, income, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Acquisition, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education
Pornour, Mohsen – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
With 73 students at an Iranian university, the present study investigated teacher's effect in topic familiarization in L2 reading context. The participants--Group B with and Group A without the presence of a teacher--experienced four pre-reading treatments and read four passages of unfamiliar topics, after which they were tested on comprehension…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Familiarity, Statistical Analysis, Qualitative Research
Romero-Ghiretti, Gabriela; White, Violaine; Berg, Bartell; Quintana, Rubén Domínguez; Grayson, Brandan L.; Weng, Miaowei – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
Research and theory on second language reading has reached heightened dimensions in recent years. It is through reading that learners access much information concerning the target language and culture, and consequently reading is an important part of almost all language programs across stages of acquisition. The purpose of this article is to offer…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction, Theory Practice Relationship
Kueker, Jean – 1990
This paper addresses the value and components of developing prereading skills to improve students' reading comprehension. Prereading activities are seen to prepare the student to both read and comprehend the story and involve cognitive engagement with ideas crucial to comprehension of the reading material. Teachers are urged to develop the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Prereading Experience

Anstey, Michele M.; Freebody, Peter – Reading Psychology, 1987
Investigates the effects of four types of prereading activities on comprehension of Australian fifth grade students: (1) irrelevant tasks (control); (2) pictorial introductions to the subject; (3) content-directed questions; and (4) free-association to the passage's titles. Determines that, although the pictorial introduction group performed best,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Inferences