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Technical Report No. 187
RESEARCH ON TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION
Robert J. Tierney University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James W. Cunningham University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
November 1980
Center for the Study of Reading
The National Institute of Education
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Technical Report No. 187 RESEARCH ON TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION
Robert J. Tierney University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James W. Cunningham University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
November 1980
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
51 Gerty Drive Champaign, Illinois 61820
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. 50 Moulton Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
To appear as a chapter in P. D. Pearson (Ed.), Handbook on Research in Reading, Longman, in press.
The research reported herein was supported in part by the National Institute of Education under Contract No. HEW-NIE-C-400-76-0116. We would like to acknowledge and thank Richard C. Anderson, Mark Aulls, Anna Marie Brophy, Jerome Harste, David Moore, David Pearson, John Readence, Joseph Vaughan, Jill Whaley, Cathy Wilson, and especially Jill LaZansky for their assistance in the development of this paper.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Peter Johnston, Chairperson
Roberta Ferrara
Jim Mosenthal
Scott Fertig
Ann Myers
Nicholas Hastings
Andee Rubin
Asghar Iran-Nejad
William Tirre
Jill LaZansky
Paul Wilson
Peter Winograd
Michael Nivens, Editorial Assistant
Research on Teaching Reading Comprehension
I. [INTRODUCTION] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. INCREASING LEARNING FROM TEXT/PROSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
A. Prereading Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1. The Role of Background Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Building Background Knowledge Prior to Reading . . . . . 6
a. Preteaching vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 b. Analogy . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Activating Background Knowledge and AttentionFocusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
a. Advance organizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 11 b. Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 c. Pretests and prequestions . . . . . . . . . . . .. .16 d. Prequestions and student-centered/generated
purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 19 e. Pictures, prefatory statements, and titles . . . .. .22
B. Guiding Reader/Text Interactions During Reading to Learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1. Inducing Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. Inserted Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3. Self-Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4. Oral Reading, Lesson Frameworks, and Study Guides . . . 31
a. Oral reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 b. Lesson frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 32 c. Study guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 33
C. Teacher Interventions Following Reading to Learn . . . . .. .34
1. Postquestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 35 2. Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3. Group and Whole-Class Discussions . . . . . . . . . .. .38
D. General Comments on Increasing Learning from Text/Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 40
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III. INCREASING ABILITY TO LEARN FROM TEXT/PROSE . . . . . . . . .. .42
A. [Introduction] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 B. Some Directions for Research in Reading Comprehension
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 45
1. Metacomprehension and Inference Training . . . . . . .. .45 2. Meeting Text-Based Needs of Readers . . . . . . . . .. .50
C. General Comments on Increasing Ability to Learn From Text/Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
IV. HOW SHOULD RESEARCH IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION PROCEED? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
A. Methodological Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 55
1. Apply a "Greatest Likelihood Principle" to
Experimental Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 57
2. Design Studies Where the Complexities of Texts,
Teaching and Context are Addressed and Can Reveal
Their Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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a. Text-treatment interactions . . . . . . . . . . .. . 60 b. Teacher-treatment interactions . . . . . . . . . .. . 61 c. Context-treatment interactions . . . . . . . . . .. .63
3. Design Studies Where the Complexities of Classroom Learning Can be Addressed . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 64
4. Design and Implement Research Which Can be Coherently Interpreted in Light of the Literature from all the Relevant Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5. A Call for Action . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 76
V. A FINAL WORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Reference Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 80
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Footnote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ill
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