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Johan van Driel; Jannet van Driel; Carla van Boxtel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Historians often present their interpretation of the past in written accounts. In order to gain deeper knowledge of the discipline of history, students must learn how to read and write historical accounts. In this experimental pretest--posttest study, we investigated the impact of a domain-specific reading instruction followed by domain-specific…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Writing Instruction, History Instruction, Reading Instruction
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ter Beek, Marlies; Opdenakker, Marie-Christine; Deunk, Marjolein I.; Strijbos, Jan-Willem; Huijgen, Tim – History Education Research Journal, 2022
The ability to apply various reading skills is an important prerequisite to comprehend expository texts commonly found in history textbooks, but it is unclear which specific skills contribute to students' historical content knowledge and historical reasoning abilities. This study used a digital learning environment (DLE) to measure and support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Content Area Reading, Reading Skills