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Direct linkReese Butterfuss; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Ellen Orcutt; Panayiota Kendeou; Danielle S. McNamara – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Readers often struggle to identify the main ideas in expository texts. Existing research and instruction provide some guidance on how to encourage readers to identify main ideas. However, there is substantial variability in how main ideas are operationalized and how readers are prompted to identify main ideas. This variability hinders…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Best Practices
Anna E. Mason; Jason L. G. Braasch; Daphne Greenberg; Erica D. Kessler; Laura K. Allen; Danielle S. McNamara – Reading Psychology, 2023
This study examined the extent to which prior beliefs and reading instructions impacted elements of a reader's mental representation of multiple texts. College students' beliefs about childhood vaccinations were assessed before reading two anti-vaccine and two pro-vaccine texts. Participants in the experimental condition read for the purpose of…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Misconceptions, Beliefs, Accuracy
Download full textReese Butterfuss; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Ellen Orcutt; Panayiota Kendeou; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Readers often struggle to identify the main ideas in expository texts. Existing research and instruction provide some guidance on how to encourage readers to identify main ideas. However, there is substantial variability in how main ideas are operationalized and how readers are prompted to identify main ideas. This variability hinders…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Best Practices
Seipel, Ben; Carlson, Sarah E.; Clinton, Virginia E. – Reading Psychology, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine moment-by-moment fluctuations in text comprehension processing and determine how and when poor and good comprehenders differ. To do so, we reanalyzed a dataset of think-aloud protocols from 138 intermediate elementary students. Both good and poor comprehenders used a variety of processing strategies when…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship
Güngör, Fatih; Yayli, Demet – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
Reading is an indispensable skill for learners who desire success throughout their academic lives, and vocabulary knowledge is a sine qua non companion of reading comprehension. Despite being inextricably related entities, very little has been written about the necessary vocabulary coverage to understand an expository text and its equivalent in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
