The Reading Teacher, Vol. 64, No. 3, Reading in Grades 4-6: Focus on Expository Reading (NOVEMBER 2010), pp. 166-178 (13 pages) ...

This study examined the impact of a tree diagram on college students' comprehension of main ideas in a social science expository text of about 3,500 words. The 160 Israeli under-graduate students who ...

Classroom teachers may not employ the strategies that can help students master complex written language, according to speech-language pathology researchers. Educators call it the fourth-grade slump: a ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...