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Download full textCousin, Patricia Tefft – 1989
Research has indicated that current information about reading and the effective teaching of reading has not yet made much impact on content area textbooks. As a result, there is much room for improvement in how textbooks are written. Recent research has yielded a great deal of information about what makes a text more understandable and supportive…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
