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ERIC Number: EJ1245418
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 10
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
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Improving Reading Comprehension of Informational Text: Text Structure Instruction for Students with or at Risk for Learning Disabilities
Zimmermann, Leah M.; Reed, Deborah K.
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v52 n4 p232-241 Mar-Apr 2020
The ability to comprehend informational texts is critical to students' academic success in a range of content areas. However, informational texts pose challenges to the reading comprehension of adolescents with or at risk for learning disabilities (LD). One such challenge is the use of multiple text structures in a single text. Text structure instruction, in which students learn to identify and analyze organizational patterns in texts, may improve the abilities of students with or at risk for LD to comprehend informational text. Importantly, text structure instruction must go beyond identifying a single overarching structure of a controlled exemplar text. To ensure that students with or at risk for LD experience rigorous text structure instruction aligned to grade-level standards, teachers need to implement instruction using authentic texts and carefully plan and gradually increase the relative complexity of instructional tasks. The purposes of this article are to describe explicit, scaffolded text structure instruction with authentic, multistructure informational texts and provide resources that general and special education teachers can use to scaffold text structure instruction.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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