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Direct linkMontelongo, Jose; Berber-Jimenez, Lola; Hernandez, Anita C.; Hosking, David – Science Teacher, 2006
Many students enter high school unskilled in the art of reading to learn from science textbooks. Even students who can read full-length novels often find science books difficult to read because students have relatively little practice with the various types of expository text structures used by such textbooks (Armbruster, 1991). Expository text…
Descriptors: Textbook Research, Text Structure, Expository Writing, Reader Text Relationship
