Reading Comprehension Research: Implications for Practice and Policy
Reading comprehension is one of the most complex behaviors in which humans engage. Reading theorists have grappled with how to comprehensively and meaningfully portray reading comprehension and many different theoretical models have been proposed in recent decades (McNamara & Magliano, 2009; Perfetti & Stafura, 2014).These models range from broad theoretical models depicting the relationships ...
The Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction
Decades of research offer important understandings about the nature of comprehension and its development. Drawing on both classic and contemporary research, in this article, we identify some key understandings about reading comprehension processes and instruction, including these: Comprehension instruction should begin early, teaching word-reading and bridging skills (including ...
The Comprehension Problems of Children with Poor Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension, or the process of engaging text for the purpose of extracting and constructing meaning (), has paramount importance to academic success and future life outcomes (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD], 2000; Snow, 2002).Yet only about 36% of fourth graders and 34% eighth graders in the United States have reading comprehension scores at or above ...
Full article: The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension
The Role of Domain Knowledge. The Construction-Integration model identifies a critical role for background knowledge in reading (Kintsch, Citation 1998; Kintsch & Van Dijk, Citation 1978).Knowledge can be classified according to its specificity; background knowledge comprises all of the world knowledge that the reader brings to the task of reading. This can include episodic (events ...
The Relationship Between Reading Strategy and Reading Comprehension: A
Abstract. This study synthesized the correlation between reading strategy and reading comprehension of four categories based on Weinstein and Mayer's reading strategy model. The current meta-analysis obtained 57 effect sizes that represented 21,548 readers, and all selected materials came from empirical studies published from 1998 to 2019.
How the Science of Reading Informs 21st‐Century Education
Abstract. The science of reading should be informed by an evolving evidence base built upon the scientific method. Decades of basic research and randomized controlled trials of interventions and instructional routines have formed a substantial evidence base to guide best practices in reading instruction, reading intervention, and the early ...
Reading comprehension research: Implications for practice and policy
Reading comprehension is one of the most complex cognitive activities in which humans engage, making it difficult to teach, measure, and research. Despite decades of research in reading comprehension, international and national reading scores indicate stagnant growth for U.S. adolescents. In this article, we review the theoretical and empirical research in reading comprehension. We first ...
Improving Reading Comprehension in the Primary Grades: Mediated Effects
Language and Reading Research Consortium. (2016). Use of the curriculum research framework (CRF) for developing a reading comprehension curricular supplement for the primary grades. The Elementary School Journal, 116(3), 459-486.
The Use of New Technologies for Improving Reading Comprehension
Introduction. Reading comprehension is a fundamental cognitive ability for children, that supports school achievement and successively participation in most areas of adult life (Hulme and Snowling, 2011).Therefore, children with learning disabilities (LD) and special educational needs who show difficulties in text comprehension, sometimes also in association with other problems, may have an ...
Full article: A systematic review of the effectiveness of reading
Research into how reading comprehension is addressed in teacher training programmes. ... This was the same issue found in many of the studies in the USA and UK, as outlined in the introduction to reading comprehension in this article. Explicit identification of approaches that impacted on outcomes.
The State of Current Reading Intervention Research for ...
This best-evidence synthesis reviews the past 20 years of rigorous reading intervention research to identify effective programs of instruction for Grade K-3 English Learners (ELs), as well as to determine the average effect of reading instruction on reading outcomes for this population. We identified 10 studies, all of which only included students in Grades K, 1, and/or 2. These studies ...
A comprehensive review of research on reading comprehension strategies
Considering the research foci and findings, we identified seven categories: (a) comparison of the strategy use in L1 and L2 reading; (b) comparison of EAL readers' and monolinguals' comprehension strategy use; (c) different L1 groups' strategy use; (d) the role of languages in the strategy use; (e) the relationship between reading proficiency and comprehension strategy use; (f) strategies in ...
PDF Reading Comprehension, What We Know: A Review of Research ...
reading comprehension is measured and research that addresses this concern is reviewed. Suggests related to how reading comprehension can be improved are presented. Keywords: reading comprehension, strategies, testing Introduction Reading is an activity performed to develop an understanding of a subject or topic.
Levels of Reading Comprehension in Higher Education: Systematic Review
This review is a guide to direct future research, broadening the study focus on the level of reading comprehension using digital technology, experimental designs, second languages, and investigations that relate reading comprehension with other factors (gender, cognitive abilities, etc.) that can explain the heterogeneity in the different ...
The Effectiveness of Reading Strategies on Reading Comprehension
Abstract —This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness. of reading strategies on reading comprehension of the second. year English major students who enrolled to study English. Reading ...
What Research Tells Us About Reading, Comprehension, and Comprehension
For many years, reading instruction was based on a concept of reading as the application of a set of isolated skills such as identifying words, finding main ideas, identifying cause and effect relationships, comparing and contrasting and sequencing. Comprehension was viewed as the mastery of these skills. One important classroom study conducted ...
The Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction
In fact, one study of morphologi-cal awareness instruction in preschool showed posi-tive impacts on reading comprehension in grade 6 (Lyster, Lervåg, & Hulme, 2016). Reading Fluency. Reading fluency— reading with accuracy, automaticity, and prosody— also serves as a bridge between decoding and reading com-prehension.
Elementary Teachers' Perspectives on Teaching Reading Comprehension
The purpose was to examine teachers' beliefs about how children in the first 7 years of schooling develop reading comprehension and to characterize the self-reported practices and strategies they use to port children to comprehend connected text. Editor-in-Chief: Amanda J. Owen Van Horne Editor: Kelly Farquharson.
The science of teaching reading comprehension
The science of teaching reading comprehension. In many discussions on the science of reading, phonics is featured on the main stage. This is most likely because, unlike language comprehension, word recognition is a constrained skill—one with a limit—that can be mastered, typically within a few years of initial teaching.
AI now beats humans at basic tasks
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension ...
Reading print is better for comprehension, study finds
Driving the news: "The main conclusion is that leisure reading habits on screen are minimally related to reading comprehension," researchers at the University of Valencia found. By the numbers ...
The Effects of Reading Fluency Interventions on the Reading Fluency and
Fluent word reading is hypothesized to facilitate reading comprehension by improving automatic word reading, thus releasing a reader's cognitive resources to focus on meaning. ... studies in this corpus did not report comprehension measures when an adult modeled fluent reading. Research is also needed to compare the effects of RR with adult ...
Supporting data for "Chinese Multimodal Reading Comprehension in a
The quantitative research dataset contains variables such as multimodal reading performance, word decoding, linguistic comprehension, image comprehension, inference, and prior knowledge. From the participants, who were fourth-grade students in Hong Kong, a total of 282 responses were collected, out of which 251 were valid.
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Reading comprehension is one of the most complex behaviors in which humans engage. Reading theorists have grappled with how to comprehensively and meaningfully portray reading comprehension and many different theoretical models have been proposed in recent decades (McNamara & Magliano, 2009; Perfetti & Stafura, 2014).These models range from broad theoretical models depicting the relationships ...
Decades of research offer important understandings about the nature of comprehension and its development. Drawing on both classic and contemporary research, in this article, we identify some key understandings about reading comprehension processes and instruction, including these: Comprehension instruction should begin early, teaching word-reading and bridging skills (including ...
Reading comprehension, or the process of engaging text for the purpose of extracting and constructing meaning (), has paramount importance to academic success and future life outcomes (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD], 2000; Snow, 2002).Yet only about 36% of fourth graders and 34% eighth graders in the United States have reading comprehension scores at or above ...
The Role of Domain Knowledge. The Construction-Integration model identifies a critical role for background knowledge in reading (Kintsch, Citation 1998; Kintsch & Van Dijk, Citation 1978).Knowledge can be classified according to its specificity; background knowledge comprises all of the world knowledge that the reader brings to the task of reading. This can include episodic (events ...
Abstract. This study synthesized the correlation between reading strategy and reading comprehension of four categories based on Weinstein and Mayer's reading strategy model. The current meta-analysis obtained 57 effect sizes that represented 21,548 readers, and all selected materials came from empirical studies published from 1998 to 2019.
Abstract. The science of reading should be informed by an evolving evidence base built upon the scientific method. Decades of basic research and randomized controlled trials of interventions and instructional routines have formed a substantial evidence base to guide best practices in reading instruction, reading intervention, and the early ...
Reading comprehension is one of the most complex cognitive activities in which humans engage, making it difficult to teach, measure, and research. Despite decades of research in reading comprehension, international and national reading scores indicate stagnant growth for U.S. adolescents. In this article, we review the theoretical and empirical research in reading comprehension. We first ...
Language and Reading Research Consortium. (2016). Use of the curriculum research framework (CRF) for developing a reading comprehension curricular supplement for the primary grades. The Elementary School Journal, 116(3), 459-486.
Introduction. Reading comprehension is a fundamental cognitive ability for children, that supports school achievement and successively participation in most areas of adult life (Hulme and Snowling, 2011).Therefore, children with learning disabilities (LD) and special educational needs who show difficulties in text comprehension, sometimes also in association with other problems, may have an ...
Research into how reading comprehension is addressed in teacher training programmes. ... This was the same issue found in many of the studies in the USA and UK, as outlined in the introduction to reading comprehension in this article. Explicit identification of approaches that impacted on outcomes.
This best-evidence synthesis reviews the past 20 years of rigorous reading intervention research to identify effective programs of instruction for Grade K-3 English Learners (ELs), as well as to determine the average effect of reading instruction on reading outcomes for this population. We identified 10 studies, all of which only included students in Grades K, 1, and/or 2. These studies ...
Considering the research foci and findings, we identified seven categories: (a) comparison of the strategy use in L1 and L2 reading; (b) comparison of EAL readers' and monolinguals' comprehension strategy use; (c) different L1 groups' strategy use; (d) the role of languages in the strategy use; (e) the relationship between reading proficiency and comprehension strategy use; (f) strategies in ...
reading comprehension is measured and research that addresses this concern is reviewed. Suggests related to how reading comprehension can be improved are presented. Keywords: reading comprehension, strategies, testing Introduction Reading is an activity performed to develop an understanding of a subject or topic.
This review is a guide to direct future research, broadening the study focus on the level of reading comprehension using digital technology, experimental designs, second languages, and investigations that relate reading comprehension with other factors (gender, cognitive abilities, etc.) that can explain the heterogeneity in the different ...
Abstract —This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness. of reading strategies on reading comprehension of the second. year English major students who enrolled to study English. Reading ...
For many years, reading instruction was based on a concept of reading as the application of a set of isolated skills such as identifying words, finding main ideas, identifying cause and effect relationships, comparing and contrasting and sequencing. Comprehension was viewed as the mastery of these skills. One important classroom study conducted ...
In fact, one study of morphologi-cal awareness instruction in preschool showed posi-tive impacts on reading comprehension in grade 6 (Lyster, Lervåg, & Hulme, 2016). Reading Fluency. Reading fluency— reading with accuracy, automaticity, and prosody— also serves as a bridge between decoding and reading com-prehension.
The purpose was to examine teachers' beliefs about how children in the first 7 years of schooling develop reading comprehension and to characterize the self-reported practices and strategies they use to port children to comprehend connected text. Editor-in-Chief: Amanda J. Owen Van Horne Editor: Kelly Farquharson.
The science of teaching reading comprehension. In many discussions on the science of reading, phonics is featured on the main stage. This is most likely because, unlike language comprehension, word recognition is a constrained skill—one with a limit—that can be mastered, typically within a few years of initial teaching.
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension ...
Driving the news: "The main conclusion is that leisure reading habits on screen are minimally related to reading comprehension," researchers at the University of Valencia found. By the numbers ...
Fluent word reading is hypothesized to facilitate reading comprehension by improving automatic word reading, thus releasing a reader's cognitive resources to focus on meaning. ... studies in this corpus did not report comprehension measures when an adult modeled fluent reading. Research is also needed to compare the effects of RR with adult ...
The quantitative research dataset contains variables such as multimodal reading performance, word decoding, linguistic comprehension, image comprehension, inference, and prior knowledge. From the participants, who were fourth-grade students in Hong Kong, a total of 282 responses were collected, out of which 251 were valid.