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Cognitive and Motivational Predictors of Narrative and Informational Text Comprehension
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Liebfreund, Meghan D. – Reading Psychology, 2021
The present study employed regression analyses to examine the influence of cognitive competencies (decoding ability, vocabulary knowledge, prior knowledge) and intrinsic motivation (curiosity and involvement) on the comprehension of narrative and informational texts. Participants included 104 students in grades four and five. Results showed…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Predictor Variables, Decoding (Reading), Vocabulary
Examining the Reading-Related Competencies of Struggling Adult Readers: Nuances across Reading Comprehension Assessments and Performance Levels
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Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
Examining the Reading-Related Competencies of Struggling Adult Readers: Nuances across Reading Comprehension Assessments and Performance Levels
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Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
Rationale for a New Generation of Reading Comprehension Assessments
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Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha – Grantee Submission, 2013
Existing reading assessments have increasingly been criticized by researchers, educators, and policy makers, especially regarding their coverage, utility, and authenticity (e.g., Magliano, Millis, Ozuru, & McNamara, 2007; Pellegrino, Chudowsky, & Glaser, 2001; Rupp, Ferne, & Choi, 2006). Specifically, there is concern that current…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Graphemes
Phonics Instruction Using Pseudowords for Success in Phonetic Decoding
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Cardenas, Jessica Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined a Pseudoword Phonics Curriculum to determine if this form of instruction would increase students' decoding skills compared to typical real-word phonics instruction. In typical phonics instruction, children learn to decode familiar words which allow them to draw on their prior knowledge of how to pronounce the word and may…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Phonics
Effects of Prior Knowledge Activation through Small-Group Discussion on the Processing of Science Text.
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Schmidt, Henk G.; Patel, Vimla L. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which problem analysis facilitated the subsequent processing of expository text, both for novices and a comparison group. A text on osmosis consisted of six-pages and was used as reading material. The ninth-grade students were considered novices because they were unfamiliar with the…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries