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Direct linkArfé, Barbara; Mason, Lucia; Fajardo, Inmaculada – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Direct instruction of reading strategies, such as the 'structure strategy', is demonstrated to be effective for the development of more mature and skilled reading processes in struggling readers. This instructional intervention approach, aimed at directly improving reading ability, can be used in combination with text simplification. Text…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Text Structure, Reading Difficulties, Reading Strategies
Kraal, Astrid; Koornneef, Arnout W.; Saab, Nadira; van den Broek, Paul W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The present study investigated comprehension processes and strategy use of second-grade low- and high-comprehending readers when reading expository and narrative texts for comprehension. Results from think-aloud protocols indicated that text genre affected the way the readers processed the texts. When reading narrative texts they made more…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Literary Genres
Hebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Lambert, Matthew C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Students who struggle with reading have particular trouble with expository text. Instruction in text structures has been shown to be effective for improving expository reading comprehension. However, few studies have been conducted specifically with upper elementary aged struggling readers. To address these issues, we developed a new intervention,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Reading Difficulties
Bogaerds-Hazenberg, Suzanne T. M.; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; van den Bergh, Huub – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
In the Netherlands, the quality of the reading curriculum is currently under debate because of disappointing results on national and international assessments of students' reading skills and motivation. In a mixed-method study, we analyzed the content of Dutch textbooks for reading comprehension instruction (i.e., the implemented curriculum) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Textbook Content, Grade 4
Turcotte, Catherine; Berthiaume, Rachel; Caron, Pier-Olivier – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study was conducted in the province of Québec, Canada, among French-speaking Grade 6 students (n = 175) in the context of a school curriculum that does not clearly address text structure and main idea instruction. It aims to understand whether these students can identify informative text structures and main ideas in isolated paragraphs,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Text Structure, Grade 6, French
Beerwinkle, Andrea L.; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Walpole, Sharon; Aguis, Rachael – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The Component Model of Reading expanded upon the Simple View of Reading by adding an ecological and psychological component. Elements of the ecological component include teacher knowledge, information provided in textbooks, and teacher instructional practices. In this study, the authors examined the extent of teacher knowledge about text…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Textbooks, Knowledge Level
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Lei, Puiwa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Explicit signals of important relationships in expository texts can provide efficient processing instructions for readers with strategic knowledge about text structures. However, such signal words do not help readers without strategic knowledge about use of text structures and signal words. This study provided the first detailed investigation…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 7
