The Role of Reader Characteristics in Processing and Learning From Informational Text

By E. Fox. 2009

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Reading Into the Future: Competence for the 21st Century (2012, background): “The more principled knowledge of that topic or domain they have, the more prepared readers are to delve deeply into the text or to comprehend and retain critical understandings from the reading act (Fox, 2009).”
Examining the structure of reading comprehension: do literal, inferential, and evaluative comprehension truly exist? (2013, background): “Because narrative and informational texts differ in terms of their purpose (Duran, McCarthy, Graesser, & McNamara, 2007; Weaver & Kintsch, 1991), it is not surprising that they also differ in terms of their structure (Best, Floyd, & McNamara, 2008; Fox, 2002).”
Cognitive activities in complex science text and diagrams (2010, background): “These results are consistent with a large number of thinkaloud (Fox, 2009) and experimental (National Reading Panel, 2000) studies.”
Facilitating Student Learning Through Contextualization (2011, background): “However, knowing when and where one should apply a previously learned skill requires metacognitive and selfregulation abilities that low-skilled students may lack (Bailer, 2006; Fox, 2009; Mayer & Wittrock, 1996; Nash-Ditzel, 2010).”
Cognitive Strategy Instruction for Improving Expository Text Comprehension of Students with Learning Disabilities: The Quality of Evidence (2011, background): “Another basic distinction between expository and narrative texts has to do with the purpose (Fox, 2009): “the main focus of narrative texts is to tell a story, so that the reader will be entertained,” whereas “the main focus of expository texts is to communicate information so that the reader might…”