Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K–12
students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using …

In the current research climate favoring rigorous experimental studies of instructional scripts
using randomly chosen treatment and control groups, education and literacy researchers …

For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related
issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the …

Failure to activate relevant, existing background knowledge may be a cause of poor reading
comprehension. This failure may cause particular problems with inferences that depend …

This volume's goal is to provide readers with up-to-date information on the research and
theory of scientific text comprehension. It is widely acknowledged that the comprehension of …

The authors review the research on response to literature and on classroom implementation
of reader response activities. In so doing, they explore what we have learned over the years …

The dramatic increase of learners reading in English-as-an-additional language (EAL)
across the world has urged educators to develop ways to provide rigorous support for these …

This article considers the role of reader characteristics in processing and learning from
informational text, as revealed in think-aloud research. A theoretical framework for relevant …

Our aim in this paper was to provide an analysis of goal orientation parameters with respect
to reading comprehension strategy use for students with and without reading difficulties …

Consider two texts. One is a story, a memoir of sorts, of a woman's first year of motherhood.
At once both humorous and poignant, the text chronicles the feelings and events the mother …