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Davis, Marcia H.; Guthrie, John T. – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors outline results of 3 studies conducted to examine the structure of disciplinary knowledge from reading measured through proximity data. In Study 1, 168 third-grade students were asked to read a science text and rate the relationships of keywords from the passage. From these ratings, comprehension scores were calculated that related…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Knowledge Level, Grade 3
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Klauda, Susan Lutz; Guthrie, John T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
This study examined the relationships of 3 levels of reading fluency--the individual word, the syntactic unit, and the whole passage--to reading comprehension among 278 5th graders heterogeneous in reading ability. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that reading fluency at each level related uniquely to performance on a standardized reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Word Recognition, Reading Ability
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Guthrie, John T. – Reading Teacher, 1978
The development of cognitive processes is essential to the development of reading comprehension skills. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Critical Reading
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Dreher, Mariam Jean; Guthrie, John T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1990
Examines the task of locating information in textbook chapters (text search). Finds differences between more efficient and less efficient searchers in how they distribute their time across various aspects of the task. Discovers that as task complexity increases, efficient searchers allocate relatively more search time to initial stages of text…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Grade 11, High Schools