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Children's Integration of Information across Texts: Reading Processes and Knowledge Representations
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Beker, Katinka; van den Broek, Paul; Jolles, Dietsje – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Constructing a knowledge representation from multiple texts requires the integration of information across texts. The aim of the current study was to investigate how elementary school students integrate information across multiple text passages and, particularly, whether students use information from a prior text to improve understanding of a…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6
Children's Comprehension Monitoring of Multiple Situational Dimensions of a Narrative
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Wassenburg, Stephanie I.; Beker, Katinka; van den Broek, Paul; van der Schoot, Menno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
Narratives typically consist of information on multiple aspects of a situation. In order to successfully create a coherent representation of the described situation, readers are required to monitor all these situational dimensions during reading. However, little is known about whether these dimensions differ in the ease with which they can be…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 6, Reading Skills, Emotional Response
Making the Right Connections: Differential Effects of Reading Intervention for Subgroups of Comprehenders
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McMaster, Kristen L.; van den Broek, Paul; Espin, Christine A.; White, Mary Jane; Rapp, David N.; Kendeou, Panayiota; Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Carlson, Sarah – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of different types of questioning interventions on students' reading comprehension. Fourth-grade students (n = 246) were identified as struggling, average, or good readers and assigned randomly within school to one of three questioning interventions: two inferential conditions (Causal or…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading, Comparative Analysis
Effects of Comprehension Skill on Inference Generation during Reading
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Carlson, Sarah E.; van den Broek, Paul; McMaster, Kristen; Rapp, David N.; Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Kendeou, Panayiota; White, Mary Jane – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate differences between readers with different levels of comprehension skill when engaging in a causal questioning activity during reading, and the varied effects on inference generation. Fourth-grade readers (n = 74) with different levels of comprehension skill read narrative texts aloud and were asked…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Inferences, Questioning Techniques, Elementary School Students
Higher-Order Comprehension Processes in Struggling Readers: A Perspective for Research and Intervention
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Rapp, David N.; van den Broek, Paul; McMaster, Kristen L.; Kendeou, Panayiota; Espin, Christine A. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2007
Many children struggle to learn to read, and these difficulties can persist well into adulthood. To address this problem, researchers have investigated the processes that underlie reading. An informative body of work has thus identified basic skills (e.g., decoding, vocabulary knowledge) as necessary for successful reading. Researchers also have…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Researchers, Teaching Methods
Accuracy and Fluency in List and Context Reading of Skilled and RD Groups: Absolute and Relative Performance Levels.
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Jenkins, Joseph R.; Fuchs, Lynn S.; van den Broek, Paul; Espin, Christine; Deno, Stanley L. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2003
Twenty-four students with reading difficulties (grade 4) and 85 skilled readers completed a reading comprehension test, read aloud a folktale, and read aloud a list of the folktale's words. Skilled readers read three times more correct words per minute in context and showed higher accuracy and rates on all measures. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Context Effect, Elementary Education, Grade 4