Reading Comprehension Instruction for Secondary Students: Challenges for Struggling Students and Teachers

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Reading Comprehension Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities, 1995—2006: A Meta-Analysis (2010, unknown): “Kim et al. (2004) particularly focused on the effectiveness of graphic organizers in the context of reading comprehension, whereas Mastropieri et al. (2003) specifically focused on reading comprehension instruction for secondary students and paid particular attention to peer tutoring, spatial…”
Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with LD: What We Know; What We Need to Learn (2008, methodology): “In fact, two analyses found that time in instruction was not a contributing factor for student outcomes (Mastropieri et al., 2003; Swan-son, 1999).”
Evidence–Based Strategies for Improving the Reading Comprehension of Secondary Students: Implications for Students with Learning Disabilities (2012, background): “Mastropieri et al. (2003) have argued that the text density and complexity of secondary textbooks can pose real challenges to many struggling students.”
Organizing and Delivering Empirically Based Literacy Instruction to Incarcerated Youth (2005, background): “Current research also suggests that explicit instruction of multiple comprehension strategies improves memory and understanding of connected text for struggling adolescent readers (Mastropieri et al., 2003; Paris, Byrnes, & Paris, 2001).”