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Davison, Mark L.; Seipel, Ben; Clinton, Virgiia; Carlson, Sarah E.; Kennedy, Patrick C. – Grantee Submission, 2020
MOCCA-C is an assessment of adult reading ability designed for early diagnosis of reading problems, for formative assessment in reading intervention planning, for assessment of reading improvement over time, and for assessment of reading intervention outcomes. It uses both narrative and expository reading passages and it currently has four forms.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Identification, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
Pesout, Ondrej – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Proficient reading comprehension provides an academic advantage for 21st century learners. However, students at the upper elementary level face increasingly challenging texts that require use of metacomprehension skills. Yet, there is a lack of formal instruction that assists students in practicing these metacomprehension skills in classrooms.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Mixed Methods Research, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Meyer, Nancy K.; Bouck, Emily C. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2017
Adolescents with learning disabilities in reading have difficulties with reading and understanding difficult gradelevel curricular material. One frequently used method of support is using read-aloud accommodations, which can be live read-alouds or text-to-speech (TTS) read-alouds. A single case alternating treatment design was used to examine the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Learning Disabilities
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García, Georgia Earnest; Godina, Heriberto – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
A qualitative think-aloud study, informed by social literacies and holistic bilingual perspectives, was conducted to examine how six emergent bilingual, Mexican American, fourth graders approached, interacted with, and comprehended narrative and expository texts in Spanish and English. The children had strong Spanish reading test scores, but…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Mexican Americans, Code Switching (Language), Translation
Fong, Anthony B.; Finkelstein, Neal D. – WestEd, 2016
In 2015, Fong, Finkelstein, Jaeger, Diaz, and Broek reported the findings from an independent evaluation of the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC). The evaluation found positive and statistically significant effects of the ERWC on student achievement. Due to some concerns that the previously reported results in Fong et al. (2015) did not…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Regression (Statistics), Least Squares Statistics, Reading Instruction
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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
Feeney, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation report focuses on the results of an intervention study that examined the effectiveness of two cognitive-based reading strategies ("5 Ws and an H" and paragraph summarization) on the reading comprehension skills of 13 high school students with mild intellectual disabilities as well as the students' abilities to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Reading Strategies, High School Students
Snyder, Anne Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The ability to comprehend expository text is vital for academic and professional success; however, many students struggle with this genre. While it has been found that text structure-based graphic organizers (GOs) may assist older students in comprehending expository text, it is uncertain whether this type of scaffold is effective for…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Instructional Materials, Statistical Analysis, Control Groups
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Elbro, Carsten; Buch-Iversen, Ida – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2013
Failure to "activate" relevant, existing background knowledge may be a cause of poor reading comprehension. This failure may cause particular problems with inferences that depend heavily on prior knowledge. Conversely, teaching how to use background knowledge in the context of gap-filling inferences could improve reading comprehension in…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Inferences, Teaching Methods
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Ponce, Hector R.; Lopez, Mario J.; Mayer, Richard E. – Computers & Education, 2012
This article examines the effectiveness of a computer-based instructional program (e-PELS) aimed at direct instruction in a collection of reading comprehension strategies. In e-PELS, students learn to highlight and outline expository passages based on various types of text structures (such as comparison or cause-and-effect) as well as to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conventional Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Instructional Effectiveness
Dromsky, Ann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Summarizing text is one of the most effective comprehension strategies (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000) and an effective way to learn from information text (Dole, Duffy, Roehler, & Pearson, 1991; Pressley & Woloshyn, 1995). In addition, much research supports the explicit instruction of such strategies as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies
Wightman, Shawn Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study was undertaken as an attempt to assess the effects of storytelling and reading aloud on fourth and fifth grade children's comprehension and oral reading fluency of both narrative and expository texts. The independent variable involved two strategies for introducing stories to children (storytelling and story reading) and a comparison…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Literacy, Statistical Analysis, Reading Comprehension
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Blake, Mary E. – Reading World, 1985
Investigates the relationship between field dependence-independence and the comprehension test scores for expository and literary text types and examines the relationship between text structure and reading comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Field Dependence Independence
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Kent, Carolyn E. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes four basic features that distinguish narrative from expository discourse and suggests that teachers who recognize those differences can guide their students to use reading strategies appropriate to particular text structures. (HOD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
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Dickson, Shirley V.; And Others – LD Forum, 1995
Six instructional design principles are recommended to enable students with learning disabilities to comprehend and compose expository materials. The instructional principles are illustrated using the compare/contrast text structure. Charts provide examples and clarification of the strategies. (SW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Instructional Design
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