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Liebfreund, Meghan D. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This purpose of this study was to develop a clearer understanding of the complex, interrelated factors that lead to successful informational text comprehension and to determine if or how these factors vary for higher and lower comprehenders. Participants (N = 177) were in grades three through five and were predominately African American (61%) and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, African American Students, Elementary School Students, Females
McTavish, Marianne – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
This qualitative case study illustrates and compares the metacognitive strategies that a grade-3 female student used while reading narrative and informational texts. Data were collected from interviews, observations, and videotaping of the participant's narrative and informational text oral reading sessions and examined using thematic analysis.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Oral Reading, Metacognition, Case Studies