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Direct linkWhite, Sheida – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
This article presents 34 characteristics of texts and tasks ("text features") that can make continuous (prose), noncontinuous (document), and quantitative texts easier or more difficult for adolescents and adults to comprehend and use. The text features were identified by examining the assessment tasks and associated texts in the national…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reader Text Relationship, Adult Literacy
Savino, Jennifer Ann – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Shakespeare, who worked actively with words through punning, playing, and inventing, serves as the model for students to experience a deepening knowledge of vocabulary and love of words. Through instructional activities aimed at increasing word play, word exposure, and word consciousness, students gain the verbal capacity needed to understand…
Descriptors: English Literature, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Comprehension
Zipprich, Mary Ann; Grace, Marsha; Grote-Garcia, Stephanie A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2009
Knowledge of patterned books provides the reader with a framework of mutually understood rules between the author and the reader. This schema of rules guides the reader to predict the story grammar and the progression of the text that has been recorded by the author. These patterns act as an additional cueing system and aid special needs students…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Books, Reader Text Relationship, Prediction
