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Avoiding Left-to-Right, Top-to-Bottom: An Examination of High School Students' Executive Functioning Skills and Strategies for Reading Non-Linear Graphic Text
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Matheson, Ian A.; MacCormack, Jeffrey – Reading Psychology, 2020
The present study focused on examining how individuals make adaptations while reading non-linear graphic text by examining the role of executive functioning, as well as identifying and describing the reading processes individuals use while reading. Sixty-seven students in Grades 9 through 12 engaged in verbal reporting while reading graphic text,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Public Schools, Executive Function
Instruction of Reading Comprehension Strategies in Literature Textbooks
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Falknor, Joletta Crooks – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The textbook holds the potential to serve as an instructional resource, to provide directives on how to effectively teach reading comprehension strategies. In this capacity, the textbook becomes a tool in the teacher's toolkit. With this tool in hand, teachers may be better prepared to face their mission--to improve adolescents' literacy. This…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Textbooks, Instructional Materials
Reading Strategies in Hypertexts and Factors Influencing Hyperlink Selection
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Protopsaltis, Aristidis – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2008
Previous work applying cognitive load theory has demonstrated the effect of various text/graphic/narration relations on learning using multimedia material. Other work has looked at how the degree of integration between the text and graphics influences their use. This study set out to look at how the degree of integration between text and graphics…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Reading Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Instructional Materials
A Review of Research in Revising Instructional Text.
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Sawyer, Mary H. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1991
Reviews research in revising instructional text by examining multidisciplinary research in readability, text structure, text interestingness, expert revisers' strategies, and readers' comprehension strategies. Finds that much of this research is limited by a simplistic view of reading, the use of experimentally contrived texts and contexts, and a…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Literature Reviews, Readability, Reading Comprehension
Teaching Readers about the Structure of Scientific Text.
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Cook, Linda K.; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Teaching college students to discriminate among and use text structures found in scientific text material was studied, using 32 undergraduate and 28 junior college students. Students can learn to become more effective processors of scientific text through acquiring active reading strategies based on domain specific knowledge. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Science, College Students, Instructional Materials, Postsecondary Education
Adapting Textbooks for Children with Learning Disabilities in Mainstreamed Classrooms.
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Meese, Ruth Lyn – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1992
Possible adaptations of textbooks for children with learning disabilities include modifying the textbook (tape recording the text, using high-interest low-vocabulary materials); altering instructional procedures (teaching textbook structure, previewing, providing advance organizers, preteaching critical vocabulary); and teaching textbook reading…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Elementary Secondary Education, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books, Instructional Materials