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Nadine Cruz Neri; Sascha Bernholt; Hendrik Härtig; Anke Schmitz; Jan Retelsdorf – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Prior research has examined the impact of different cognitive predictors on students' expository and narrative text comprehension. It has become apparent that some cognitive variables predict text comprehension in both genres, while some are genre-specific predictors. However, the effect of reading motivation on expository and narrative text…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Motivation
Johansson, Maritha – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study explores literature reading and reception of narrative texts among Swedish middle school students. Through a written assignment and a think-aloud protocol, students' comprehension and interpretation of narrative texts are investigated. The study shows that Swedish middle school students tend to focus mainly on the plot. The main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Writing Assignments
Yukhymenko-Lescroart, Mariya A.; Goldman, Susan R.; Lawless, Kimberly A.; Pellegrino, James W.; Shanahan, Cynthia R. – Educational Psychology, 2022
To extend the existing research examining multiple text comprehension and its assessment, we developed a verification task approach to assessing of information that was "explicitly" and "implicitly" presented "within" and across nine texts. A nonparametric form of signal detection theory was used to analyse the…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Nonparametric Statistics
John Z. Strong; Laura S. Tortorelli; Blythe E. Anderson – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Many adolescent readers experience difficulties comprehending informational text, which may result from underlying difficulties with foundational skills (e.g., word recognition and fluency), knowledge demands (e.g., background, text structure, and vocabulary), and/or reading motivation. Supplemental interventions for adolescents targeting only…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Hall-Mills, Shannon; Marante, Leesa; Tonello, Breanna; Johnson, Lauren – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
The present case study illustrates the use of explicit text structure intervention for expository reading comprehension with three adolescents with language learning disabilities (LLD). We investigated whether it was feasible to provide direct instruction on the identification of signal words that denote compare-contrast relations between…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Adolescents, Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities
Myers, Matthew C.; Wilson, Joshua – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
This study evaluated the construct validity of six scoring traits of an automated writing evaluation (AWE) system called "MI Write." Persuasive essays (N = 100) written by students in grades 7 and 8 were randomized at the sentence-level using a script written with Python's NLTK module. Each persuasive essay was randomized 30 times (n =…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Algorithms
Hall-Mills, Shannon S.; Marante, Leesa M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
This systematic review article summarizes the effects of explicit text structure instruction on expository text comprehension for adolescents with learning disabilities or at risk for reading failure. A thorough literature search with four databases and backward citation search identified nine studies published in the past 22 years for inclusion…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Direct Instruction, Expository Writing, Instructional Effectiveness
Phillips Galloway, Emily; Qin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola; Barr, Christopher D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Learning to use language in order to complete source-based writing tasks is a challenge for middle grade writers worthy of additional study, especially given that these tasks are increasingly common in classrooms. Here, we examined the contribution of receptive and productive cross-disciplinary academic language skills to the writing quality of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Academic Language, Language Skills, Content Area Writing
Karchmer-Klein, Rachel; Shinas, Valerie Harlow – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine how skilled adolescent readers draw on their prior knowledge of multimodality and narrative text structure when navigating an intentionally designed digital narrative text. We know that skilled middle-school readers have been taught narrative text structure and that adolescents who use the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, Navigation, Prior Learning
Cheng, Rong – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine whether teaching students about the structure of a text would be associated with improved reading comprehension. Science texts were used with the intention of adding to what is known about content-area reading comprehension. To investigate the effects of teaching science text structure, a reading…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Text Structure, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
Spycher, Pamela – WestEd, 2021
Reading critically involves examining the language choices authors make to "get the job done" -- in other words, to communicate effectively in specific ways with particular audiences. Not all students in middle and high school intuit this type of reading and may experience challenges when they go to write for academic purposes. Their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Instruction
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Lei, Puiwa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Explicit signals of important relationships in expository texts can provide efficient processing instructions for readers with strategic knowledge about text structures. However, such signal words do not help readers without strategic knowledge about use of text structures and signal words. This study provided the first detailed investigation…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 7
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Lei, Puiwa – Grantee Submission, 2018
Explicit signals of important relationships in expository texts can provide efficient processing instructions for readers with strategic knowledge about text structures. However, such signal words do not help readers without strategic knowledge about use of text structures and signal words. This study provided the first detailed investigation…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 7
Scott, D. Beth; Dreher, Mariam Jean – Reading Psychology, 2016
This study examined the thinking processes students engage in while constructing graphic representations of textbook content. Twenty-eight students who either used graphic representations in a routine manner during social studies instruction or learned to construct graphic representations based on the rhetorical patterns used to organize textbook…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Protocol Analysis, Correlation, Textbook Content
Midgette, Ekaterina; Haria, Priti – Reading Psychology, 2016
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of two comprehensive argumentative writing interventions--Text Structure Instruction (TSI) and Text Structure Revision Instruction (TSRI)--on the eighth-grade students' ability to compose convincing essays that include structural elements of argumentative discourse. Both treatment groups…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Text Structure, Writing Instruction
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