Embedding reading comprehension training in content-area instruction

By Joanna P. Williams, K. Brooke Stafford, Kristen D. Lauer, Kendra M. Hall, S. Pollini. 2009

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Coh-Metrix (2011, unknown): “…more from interventions, content, and texts pitched at deeper reading components and media of 21st-century literacy (Biancarosa & Snow, 2004; Meyer et al., 2010; Moje, 2008; Resnick, 2010; Wiley, Goldman, Graesser, Sanchez, Ash, & Hemmerich, 2009; Williams, Stafford, Lauer, Hall, & Pollini, 2009).”
An intervention to improve comprehension of cause/effect through expository text structure instruction. (2014, background): “…coupled with the results of evaluations of Williams’ intervention to teach the comparison structure within the context of science instruction (Williams et al., 2005, 2009), which also showed robust effects, suggest that a focus on text structure is valuable for young children across a…”
Structure Strategy Interventions: Increasing Reading Comprehension of Expository Text. (2011, background): “Again, primary-grade children demonstrated greater learning of the comparison (compare/contrast) structure and improved their ability to understand novel text (Williams et al. 2009).”
Effects of Expository Text Structure Interventions on Comprehension: A Meta‐Analysis (2017, background): “…to increase their recall and comprehension of expository text (Armbruster, Anderson, & Ostertag, 1987; Dickson et al., 1995; Duke, Pearson, Strachan, & Billman, 2011; Meyer & Ray, 2011; Shanahan et al., 2010; Weisberg & Balajthy, 1989; Wijekumar et al., 2014; Williams et al., 2009, 2014).”