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Jennie M. Baumann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Knowledge development, application, and refinement are essential parts of students' reading. One way to observe how students use their knowledge as they read is through talk. Studies routinely indicate that though reading is a social endeavor, teachers spend most of the allotted instructional time talking or using discourse patterns that do not…
Descriptors: Discussion, Text Structure, Intersectionality, Knowledge Level
Beerwinkle, Andrea L.; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Walpole, Sharon; Aguis, Rachael – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The Component Model of Reading expanded upon the Simple View of Reading by adding an ecological and psychological component. Elements of the ecological component include teacher knowledge, information provided in textbooks, and teacher instructional practices. In this study, the authors examined the extent of teacher knowledge about text…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Textbooks, Knowledge Level
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
Kendeou, Panayiota; McMaster, Kristen L.; Christ, Theodore J. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Reading comprehension is multidimensional and complex. The persistent challenges children, adolescents, and even adults face with reading comprehension call for concerted efforts to develop assessments that help identify sources of difficulties and to design instructional approaches to prevent or ameliorate these difficulties. Doing so requires…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods, Reading Processes
Andiliou, Andria; Ramsay, Crystal M.; Murphy, P. Karen; Fast, Jerel – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2012
The proliferation of new forms of media has given way to a multitude of new text structures, particularly texts designed to alter the receiver's perspectives. Yet, little is known about the ways in which these novel text structures alter the characteristics of the receiver including one's knowledge and beliefs. As such, the purpose of this…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Persuasive Discourse, Student Attitudes, Reader Text Relationship
Expository Text Comprehension: Helping Primary-Grade Teachers Use Expository Texts to Full Advantage
Hall, Kendra M.; Sabey, Brenda L.; McClellan, Michelle – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2005
This study investigated the effectiveness of an instructional program designed to teach expository text comprehension during guided reading. Participants included 72 second graders in six classrooms, organized into four guided reading groups in each class (n = 24). The six classes were randomly assigned to one of three groups: Text Structure,…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods

Snider, Vicki E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The study found that instructing 13 learning-disabled junior high students in the necessary prior knowledge (information and vocabulary concepts) led to superior reading comprehension performance. Textually explicit text structure also improved reading comprehension. (DB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
Becker, Evelyn Z.; McCormick, Sandra – 1991
This review examines all data-based ecologically valid studies published in "Learning Disability Quarterly" or "Journal of Learning Disabilities" that addressed reading instruction and were published from 1980 to 1990. It first looks at studies focusing on comprehension, including such reader factors as prior knowledge, metacognition, and visual…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)