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Leroy, Caroline; Gerjets, Peter; Oestermeier, Uwe; Kammerer, Yvonne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This study examined the effect of the reading environment, i.e., documents presentation and possibility of text-highlighting, on readers' integrated understanding, as well as the interplay between the reading environment and overt reading processes (i.e., online integrative processes) in forming intertextual connections. University students (N…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Processes, College Students, Reader Text Relationship
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Catrysse, Leen; Chauliac, Margot; Donche, Vincent; Gijbels, David – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study examined the relationship between refutation texts and attention allocation by focusing on the interaction between important reader-and-text characteristics. Specifically, the authors investigated how prior knowledge and text-based interest affect attention allocation on refutation/control statements, topic, and explanatory and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Attention Control, Reading Materials, Reader Text Relationship
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Cisco, Jonathan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2016
Students face challenging texts in higher education, whether they are discipline-specific journal articles or great works of literature. Building on research in content area reading and disciplinary literacy, this case study explores the various stances undergraduate honors students take when coping with challenging texts while enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Honors Curriculum, Intellectual Disciplines, Content Area Reading
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Fox, Emily – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This article considers the role of reader characteristics in processing and learning from informational text, as revealed in think-aloud research. A theoretical framework for relevant aspects of readers' processing and products was developed. These relevant aspects included three attentional foci for processing (comprehension, monitoring, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning, Goal Orientation
DuBay, William H. – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this book is to introduce the research on readability, defined here as reading ease. The first part of the book covers how people read. A series of national literacy surveys show that the average person in the U.S. and most other countries are adults of limited reading skills. For example, the average adult in the U.S. reads at the…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Rate, Reading Research
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Bogdan, Deanne – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, 1990
Drawing from personal experiences of catharsis in the reading of literary works, presents a new and broader theory of reader response. Considers the classical distinctions that have been made about the nature of response, arguing that the disturbing trends in contemporary world events must set the context of current readings. (DMM)
Descriptors: Catharsis, Current Events, Futures (of Society), Literature
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Shanklin, Nancy L. – Reading Improvement, 1988
Discusses ways that teachers may interact with children over texts in order to emphasize the following components of reading comprehension: understanding the meaning-making purpose of reading and writing; viewing reading as a problem-solving process; and learning to share and extend individual comprehension. (RAE)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension
Pinnell, Gay Su – Teachers Networking: The Whole Language Newsletter, 1988
Can teachers see where the reading process is going wrong in the first years of school? Marie M. Clay designed procedures called Reading Recovery to help young children at risk of failure in reading. In the first year of an Ohio pilot study over two-thirds of the children reached average levels in reading and were successfully released from the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Difficulties
Ames, Mildred – 1987
Noting that books for children must be just as entertaining, if not more so, than television or film in order to maintain young readers' attention, this paper discusses combining entertainment with didacticism in children's and adolescent literature. The first part of the paper offers a writer's reflections on the experience of writing science…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking
Havriliak, Audrey F.; Dougherty, Mildred – 1985
The current writing across the curriculum movement has shown educators that the process of composing focuses writers' attention on producing much the same material that reading exercises asked them only to recognize. Two taxonomic structures and a list of Scott, Foresman's reading comprehension skills may be used to help demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Learning Theories, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension
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Flood, James; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1989
Examines the role of the teacher in enhancing students' reading comprehension. Finds that the teacher is a more significant factor in the comprehension of lengthy natural texts than is the ease of the text itself. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Lecture Method, Reader Text Relationship
Heap, James L. – 1987
Current theories of reading are concerned with the nature of the "means" for achieving goals--processing components, paths, practices, and strategies. If reading is understood as text-oriented cultural activities, a continuum of text use can be formulated with enabling texts (those that enable the reader to do something) at one end and…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Information Processing
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Idol, Lorna – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1988
This empirically-based model depicts the interactive, constructivist process of reading and three classes of variables that influence reading. Teacher variables include presentation, instructional intervention, instructional climate, and behavior management. Text variables include text language, relevance, organization, story structures, and…
Descriptors: Attention, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Winograd, Peter; Osborn, Jean – 1986
Kentucky is one of twenty-four states that rely upon a state adoption process for selecting school textbooks, a procedure that occurs every six years. Publishers' bids are solicited and evaluated by the State Textbook Commission, and the Textbook Selection Criteria Committee for Reading makes recommendations that will be of help to people…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
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Mulcahy, Patricia I.; Samuels, S. Jay – Reading Psychology, 1987
Argues that comprehension is a problem-solving activity and that different problem-solving schemata exist for different types of texts, both narrative and expository. Suggests that good comprehension occurs when there is a match between the author's schemata and that of the reader, creating a dialogue between the writer and the reader. (JK)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing
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