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Smith, Shelby L.; Ward, Richard T.; Allen, Laura K.; Wormwood, Jolie B.; Mills, Caitlin – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
In today's society, we are constantly absorbing information via text (e.g., news, social media), much of which may be affectively charged. However, to date, little is known about how the affective framing of the text itself may give rise to various affective experiences "during" reading. We examined how subtle changes to wording…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Affective Behavior, Correlation, Language Usage
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
Nese, Joseph F. T.; Alonzo, Julie; Biancarosa, Gina; Kamata, Akihito; Kahn, Joshua – Grantee Submission, 2017
Text complexity has received increased attention due to the CCSS, which call for students to comprehend increasingly more complex texts as they progress through grades. Quantitative text complexity (or readability) indices are based on text attributes (e.g., sentence lengths, and lexical, syntactic, & semantic difficulty), quantified by…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Readability, Sentence Structure
Beker, Katinka; Jolles, Dietsje; Lorch, Robert F., Jr.; van den Broek, Paul – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Learning often involves integration of information from multiple texts. The aim of the current study was to determine whether relevant information from previously read texts is spontaneously activated during reading, allowing for integration between texts (experiment 1 and 2), and whether this process is related to the representation of the texts…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Prior Learning, Associative Learning, Sentence Structure
Williams, Joanna P.; Pollini, Simonne; Nubla-Kung, Abigail M.; Snyder, Anne E.; Garcia, Amaya; Ordynans, Jill G.; Atkins, J. Grant – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
This study evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention for second graders at risk for academic failure, which taught reading comprehension embedded in social studies content. The intervention included instruction about the structure of cause/effect expository text, emphasizing clue words, generic questions, graphic organizers, and close…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Lewis, Mark Rose; Mensink, Michael C. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Prereading questions can be an effective tool for directing students' learning. However, it is not always clear what the online effects of a set of prereading questions will be. In two experiments, this study investigated whether readers direct additional attention to and learn more from sentences that are potentially relevant to a set of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Attention Control, Educational Indicators, Reader Text Relationship
Shanahan, Timothy; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Educational Leadership, 2012
The Common Core State Standards emphasize the value of teaching students to engage with complex text. But what exactly makes a text complex, and how can teachers help students develop their ability to learn from such texts? The authors of this article discuss five factors that determine text complexity: vocabulary, sentence structure, coherence,…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level
Wang, Danhua – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2009
This study investigated factors that would affect a reader's understanding of the main idea at the global level and explicit and implicit main ideas at the local level. Fifty-seven first-year university students taking a college reading course took a comprehension test on an expository text. Statistical analyses revealed that text structure had a…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Text Structure, Sentence Structure, Reading Comprehension

Fiengo, Robert; May, Robert – Language, 1995
Maintains that Edwin Williams has not properly appreciated or presented the central theses of "Indices and Identity" (I&I). The article also states that criticisms of particular analyses offered are consistently off the mark. This discussion note is presented as a clarification of the issues presented. The central concern in I&I is with the nature…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Pronouns, Reading Comprehension, Sentence Structure
Boyer, Jean-Yves – 1990
A study investigated whether or not the global structure of a text influences its readability and how that influence might be related to the already recognized influences of vocabulary and sentence length. The subjects, 250 fourth-grade students in Quebec, each read four texts representing four different structures, four subjects, and two levels…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
Balota, D. A., Ed.; And Others – 1990
Focusing on the process of reading comprehension, this book contains chapters on some central topics relevant to understanding the processes associated with comprehending text. The articles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Comprehension Processes: Introduction" (K. Rayner); (2) "The Role of Meaning in Word Recognition"…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Failure
Andrews, Glenda; Halford, Graeme S.; Prasad, Ashika – 1998
Two experiments investigated the role of capacity in children's comprehension of relative clause sentences. Sentences varied in number of participant roles, focus (object, subject), and embeddedness (center-embedded, right-branching). Center-embeddedness and object-focus were expected to constrain individuals toward assigning more nouns to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension

Venable, Gail Portnuff – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
This article discusses the reading fluency and comprehension problems of struggling secondary students who can read, with assistance, on a fourth-grade reading level or above. Difficulties with vocabulary and sentence construction are described, along with problems with pronoun reference and noun substitutions, metaphor, and conventions of print.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Metaphors, Pronouns, Readability