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Rainey, Emily C.; Storm, Scott – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
In this exploratory case study, the authors employed an "interpretive communities" lens to investigate the ways in which 12 high school English teachers of one district read and reasoned with literary works. Primary data sources were verbal protocol interviews and semistructured interviews. Analysis revealed that the focal teachers…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, English Teachers, Literacy Education, Content Area Reading
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
White, Sheida – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
This article presents 34 characteristics of texts and tasks ("text features") that can make continuous (prose), noncontinuous (document), and quantitative texts easier or more difficult for adolescents and adults to comprehend and use. The text features were identified by examining the assessment tasks and associated texts in the national…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reader Text Relationship, Adult Literacy
Kucer, Stephen B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
This research investigates the ability of adult proficient readers to predict words that have been fully or partially deleted, without being able to read what came after the blank. Predictions were analyzed for accuracy and if inaccurate for their grammatical nature, syntactic and semantic acceptability, and retention of the author's meaning.…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Processes, Reader Text Relationship, Cues
Foley, Laura S. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
This research investigated factors that influence the implementation levels of evidence-based comprehension strategy instruction (CSI) among K-3 teachers. An explanatory design was chosen to gather and probe the data. Quantitative data were gathered via a mailed survey distributed through a representative sample of the 40 school districts (through…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Emergent Literacy