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Beerwinkle, Andrea Lynne – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The ability to comprehend science texts is not only an academic skill but a life skill. Currently, however, the majority of students across grade levels in the United States are reading below grade level "and" have science achievement below grade level. The text structure strategy, a reading comprehension strategy in which students are…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
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Artuso, Caterina; Carretti, Barbara; Palladino, Paola – School Psychology International, 2019
This study analyzed the potential transfer effects on reading comprehension skills of two different training programs administered to 9- to 10-year-old children attending fourth grade classes. One training program was based on a working memory updating paradigm (i.e., words, digits, sentence and text updating working memory tasks). The other…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Transfer of Training