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Expository Text Comprehension: Helping Primary-Grade Teachers Use Expository Texts to Full Advantage
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Direct linkHall, Kendra M.; Sabey, Brenda L.; McClellan, Michelle – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2005
This study investigated the effectiveness of an instructional program designed to teach expository text comprehension during guided reading. Participants included 72 second graders in six classrooms, organized into four guided reading groups in each class (n = 24). The six classes were randomly assigned to one of three groups: Text Structure,…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Williams, Joanna P.; Hall, Kendra M.; Lauer, Kristen D. – Exceptionality, 2004
Expository text is often neglected in the elementary school curriculum even though most of the reading that children do in school is of that type. Most of the research that demonstrates the importance of text structure in reading comprehension and the benefits that accrue from instruction in text structure deals with children at or above the 4th…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Elementary School Curriculum, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure
