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Tong, Xiuhong; Deng, Qinli; Tong, Shelley Xiuli – Annals of Dyslexia, 2022
This study examined whether syntactic awareness was related to reading comprehension difficulties in either first language (L1) Chinese or second language (L2) English, or both, among Hong Kong Chinese-English bilingual children. Parallel L1 and L2 metalinguistic and reading measures, including syntactic word-order, morphological awareness,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Montelongo, Jose A.; Hernandez, Anita C. – Reading Teacher, 2007
This article introduces a modification of the sentence completion task that acquaints students with various types of informational text structures (e.g., cause-effect, compare-contrast) and challenges their higher order reading and writing skills. When the individual sentences comprising an expository paragraph are intermingled with unrelated…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 4, Writing Skills, Sentences