This study examined the influences of reading decoding skills and world knowledge on third
graders' comprehension of narrative and expository texts. Children read a narrative text and …

Abstract Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART) is a Web-
based application that provides young adolescent to college-age students with high-level …

Many students from elementary school through college encounter difficulty understanding
their science textbooks, regardless of whether they have language disorders. This article …

Students with low knowledge have been shown to better understand and learn more from
more cohesive texts, whereas high-knowledge students have been shown to learn more …

How do explaining and prior knowledge contribute to learning? Four experiments explored
the relationship between explanation and prior knowledge in category learning. The …

La comprensión lectora es fundamental en el éxito académico universitario, por lo que se
espera que el estudiante que ingresa a la educación superior posea competencias lectoras …

Since the 1998 publication of our first edited volume, Metacognition in Educational Theory
and Practice, metacognition has continued to be an important area of research, and its …

The purpose of this study was to compare the relative effectiveness of live (SERT) and
computer-based (iSTART) reading strategy training. Prior to and after training, participants …

This study used a think‐aloud approach to compare reading strategy use in the first
language (L1) and non‐native language (L2) among 36 English as a foreign language …

The aim of the present study was to identify dominant goal orientation patterns in university
students, define their motivational profiles and their reading strategy use. The results of …