This research examines reading comprehension as regards the two main text genres, narrative and informational, differentiated in terms of content, in relation to the students’ prior knowledge. At the ...

In December 2023, the University of Valencia published research showing that reading paper books results in six to eight times better comprehension than reading e-books. Over 450,000 people ...

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In 2018, Associate Professor Dianna Townsend set out to explore different approaches to reading comprehension of informational texts for adolescent, multilingual students who were designated as ...

However, reading informational texts often requires frequent stopping to analyze what’s been said, look at images, or relate the information to the larger lesson. Often, they should be read over ...

Remedial Reading and Language Arts – Students will recognize informational text structures and differentiate authors’ purposes. Students will apply this knowledge by writing five different kinds of ...

In an English/language arts classroom in Iowa, 10th graders are analyzing the rhetoric in books about computer geeks, fast food, teenage marketing, the working poor, chocolate-making, and ...