Understanding Expository Text

Author : Bruce K. Britton,John B. Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351584647

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Understanding Expository Text by Bruce K. Britton,John B. Black Pdf

Originally published in 1985, the various chapters in this volume give examples of research on all three aspects of text understanding – namely, structure, world knowledge and process. More than this, however, the research described represents a shift in emphasis from studying stories, which dominated the field in the late 1970s, to studying expository text. This focus on stories was probably due to the essential first step in any science of examining the simplest materials possible. However, the editors thought that it was time to shift the research focus from stories to expository text and this volume is their attempt to provide this transition.

Author : Bruce K. Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:258615328

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Understanding Expository Text by Bruce K. Britton Pdf

Author : Mary L. Hoch,Jana L. McNally
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475851243

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Empowering Readers by Mary L. Hoch,Jana L. McNally Pdf

To address Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for reading and language, today’s educators strive to help their students develop higher-level understanding with challenging materials. In this book, we share our method for implementing an integrated strategy approach for helping readers understand expository text. This approach can be used to accompany and extend text structure instruction on the five most commonly used expository text structures: compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, description, and sequence. Within this approach, we designed a method for using key vocabulary in a way that helps readers think about the structure of the text. To aid in the development of higher-level understanding with challenging materials, this approach integrates other essential reading comprehension components that foster understanding, such as predicting and summarizing. The Structure Sort integrated approach embeds these essential strategies before, during, and after reading to empower students to make connections and build comprehension at all stages of reading.

Author : Marilyn A. Nippold,Cheryl M. Scott
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136951053

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Expository Discourse in Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Marilyn A. Nippold,Cheryl M. Scott Pdf

School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex topic through oral reports and essay examinations. Although many students are proficient with the expository genre, others struggle to meet these expectations. This book is designed to provide information on the use and understanding of expository discourse in school-age children, adolescents, and young adults. Recently, researchers from around the world have been investigating the development of this genre in typical students and in those with language disorders. Although many books have addressed the development of conversational and narrative discourse, by comparison, books devoted to the topic of expository discourse are sparse. This crossdisciplinary volume fills that gap in the literature and makes a unique contribution to the study of language development and disorders. It will be of interest to a range of professionals, including speech-language pathologists, teachers, linguists, and psychologists who are concerned with language development and disorders.

Author : Diane Lapp,James Flood,Nancy Farnan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135605599

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Content Area Reading and Learning by Diane Lapp,James Flood,Nancy Farnan Pdf

How can teachers make content-area learning more accessible to their students? This text addresses instructional issues and provides a wealth of classroom strategies to help all middle and secondary teachers effectively enable their students to develop both content concepts and strategies for continued learning. The goal is to help teachers model, through excellent instruction, the importance of lifelong content-area learning. This working textbook provides students maximum interaction with the information, strategies, and examples presented in each chapter. Content Area Reading and Learning: Instructional Strategies, Third Edition is organized around five themes: Content Area Reading: An Overview The Teacher and the Text The Students The Instructional Program School Culture and Environment in Middle and High School Classrooms Pedagogical features: Each chapter includes a graphic organizer, a chapter overview, a Think Before Reading Activity, one or more Think While Reading Activities, and a Think After Reading Activity. The activities present questions and scenarios designed to integrate students’ previous knowledge and experience with their new learnings about issues related to content area reading, literacy, and learning, and to serve as catalysts for thinking and discussions. New in the Third Edition The latest information on literacy strategies in every content area Research-based strategies for teaching students to read informational texts Up-to-date information for differentiating instruction for English-speaking and non-English speaking students An examination of youth culture and the role it plays in student learning A look at authentic learning in contexts related to the world of work Ways of using technology and media literacy to support content learning Suggestions for using writing in every content area to enhance student learning Ideas for using multiple texts for learning content A focus on the assessment-instruction connection Strategies for engaging and motivating students Content Area Reading and Learning: Instructional Strategies, Third Edition, is intended as a primary text for courses on middle and high school content area literacy and learning.

Author : Melissa Stewart,Marlene Correia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003842446

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5 Kinds of Nonfiction by Melissa Stewart,Marlene Correia Pdf

Once upon a time...children's nonfiction books were stodgy, concise, and not very kid friendly. Most were text heavy, with just a few scattered images decorating the content and meaning, rather than enhancing it. Over the last 20 years, children's nonfiction has evolved into a new breed of visually dynamic and engaging texts.In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books , Melissa Stewart and Dr. Marlene Correia present a new way to sort nonfiction into five major categories and show how doing so can help teachers and librarians build stronger readers and writers. Along the way, they: Introduce the 5 kinds of nonfiction: Active, Browseable, Traditional, Expository Literature, and Narrative -;and explore each category through discussions, classroom examples, and insights from leading children's book authorsOffer tips for building strong, diverse classroom texts and library collectionsProvide more than 20 activities to enhance literacy instructionInclude innovative strategies for sharing and celebrating nonfiction with students.With more than 150 exemplary nonfiction book recommendations and Stewart and Correia's extensive knowledge of literacy instruction, 5 Kinds of Nonfiction will elevate your understanding of nonfiction in ways that speak specifically to the info-kids in your classrooms, but will inspire all readers and writers.

Author : José Otero,José A. León,Arthur C. Graesser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135647179

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The Psychology of Science Text Comprehension by José Otero,José A. León,Arthur C. Graesser Pdf

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 science and technological artifacts is very difficult for both children and adults. The material is conceptually complex, there is very little background knowledge for most individuals, and the materials are often poorly written. Therefore, it is no surprise that students are turned off from learning science and technology. Given these challenges, it is important to design scientific text in a fashion that fits the cognitive constraints of the learner. The enterprise of textbook design needs to be effectively integrated with research in discourse processing, educational technology, and cognitive science. This book takes a major step in promoting such an integration. This volume: *provides an important integration of research and theory with theoretical, methodological, and educational applications; *includes a number of chapters that cover how science text information affects mental representations and strategies; *introduces important suggestions about how text design and new technologies can be thought of as pedagogical features; and *establishes academic text taxonomies and a consensus of the criteria to organize inferences and other mental mechanisms.

Author : Christine Dugan
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781480778672

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Academic Vocabulary Level 2--Organizing Expository Texts by Christine Dugan Pdf

This lesson integrates academic vocabulary instruction into content-area lessons. Two easy-to-implement strategies for teaching academic vocabulary are integrated within the step-by-step, standards-based writing lesson.

Author : Eli R. Johnson
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412971331

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Academic Language! Academic Literacy! by Eli R. Johnson Pdf

Develop students' understanding of academic language and watch literacy skills soar! To achieve higher levels of learning, students must be able to understand academic language--the formalized language of instruction found in classrooms, textbooks, and standardized tests. Eli R Johnson conveys a powerful message of the need for teachers to provide explicit academic language instruction for all students, especially English language learners or those struggling with reading. Filled with 36 hands-on strategies, this practical, solidly researched guide helps teachers make the critical connection between academic language, literacy, and student achievement for all learners, regardless of home language or socioeconomic status. Explained in reader-friendly terms, each strategy helps teachers give their students the tools and skills necessary to decipher academic language in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. This Key Stage 1 to 'A' Level book also includes - A strategy matrix to help teachers select appropriate strategies for their grade level - A description of each strategy, with information on how it works in the classroom and why it is effective - Collaborative protocols to help infuse academic language throughout the content areas - Lists of words that can be introduced at each grade level to build students' vocabulary Academic Language! Academic Literacy! helps teachers instruct students on the language of education so they have a chance to demonstrate what they know and experience success.

Author : Bernadette Van Hout-Wolters,Wolfgang Schnotz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000142532

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Text Comprehension And Learning by Bernadette Van Hout-Wolters,Wolfgang Schnotz Pdf

This book deals with the significance of different text structures and its cognitive processing in learning from texts. It discusses the effect of learning abilities and attitudes for learning from texts, and focuses on the significance of processing and learning strategies for text comprehension.

Author : Wayne Otto
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323156189

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Reading Expository Material by Wayne Otto Pdf

Reading Expository Material focuses on the techniques on how to apply the skills in reading tasks outside of formal reading instruction. This book explores the problems related to skill application that are encountered by reading specialists and educators. Organized into six parts encompassing 17 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the categories of the study, including the reader, the text, and the interaction of reader with text. This text then examines the readers' metacognitive development, the development of study skills, and learning strategies. Other chapters explore the concept of knowledge and explain how knowledge comes into play in the process of perception and comprehension. This book discusses as well the developments in cognitive psychology and in artificial intelligence. The final chapter reviews how to enable teachers in the classroom to deal more realistically with the facts of a reader–text interaction. Reading specialists, researchers, and educators with an interest in the teaching of and learning from expository materials will find this book useful.

Author : Sheri Ann Wilkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Learning disabled children
ISBN : UCR:31210015196775

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Teaching Expository Text Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension in Low Readers by Sheri Ann Wilkins Pdf

Author : Susan R. Goldman,Arthur C. Graesser,Paul van den Broek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135666064

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Narrative Comprehension, Causality, and Coherence by Susan R. Goldman,Arthur C. Graesser,Paul van den Broek Pdf

This volume provides an excellent overview of the field of discourse processes, capturing both its breadth and its depth. World-renowned researchers present the latest theoretical developments and thought-provoking empirical data. In doing so, they cover a broad range of communicative activities, including text comprehension, conversational communication, argumentation, television or media viewing, and more. A central theme across all chapters concerns the notion that coherence determines the interpretation of the communication. The various chapters illustrate the many forms that coherence can take, and explore its role in different communicative settings.

Author : Anne P. Sweet,Catherine E. Snow
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1572308923

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Rethinking Reading Comprehension by Anne P. Sweet,Catherine E. Snow Pdf

This practical book grows out of a recent report written by the RAND Reading Study Group (RRSG), which proposed a national research agenda in the area of reading comprehension. Here, RRSG members have expanded on their findings and translated them into clear recommendations to inform practice. Teachers gain the latest knowledge about how students learn to comprehend texts and what can be done to improve the quality of instruction in this essential domain. From leading literacy scholars, the book explains research-based ways to: *Plan effective instruction for students at all grade levels *Meet the comprehension needs of English-language learners *Promote adolescents' comprehension of subject-area texts *Understand the complexities of comprehension assessment *Get optimal benefits from instructional technologies *And much more!

Author : Sue Ellen Wright,Leland D. Wright
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789027231819

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Scientific and Technical Translation by Sue Ellen Wright,Leland D. Wright Pdf

Technical translation (and technical terminology) encompasses the translation of special language texts. 1. "Style and Register" covers clarity of style, culture-specific and author-reader conventions and expectation. 2. "Special Applications" deals with the contribution of translation to the dissemination of science. 3. "Training and Autodidactic Approaches for Technical Translators" translators must master a broad range of frequently unanticipated topics, as well as linguistic competence. 4. "Text Analysis and Text Typology as Tools for Technical Translators" focuses attention on text typology and SGML in human translation and CAT. 5. "Translation-Oriented Terminology Activities" explores the different aspects of terminology: knowledge management, language planning, terminology resources and representation of concept systems.