This study examined whether children’s reading rate, comprehension, and recall are affected by computer presentation of text. Participants were 60 grade five students, who each read two expository texts, one in a traditional print format and the other from a computer monitor, which used a common scrolling text interface. After reading each text, participants were asked to recall as much as they...

Sensitivity to certain spatial frequencies declines with age and this may have profound effects on reading performance. However, the spatial frequency content of text actually used by older adults (aged 65+), and how this differs from that used by young adults (aged 18-30), remains to be determined. To investigate this issue, the eye movement behavior of young and older adult readers was assess...

OBJECTIVE Mindless reading occurs when an individual shifts their attention away from the text and toward other off-task thoughts. This study examined whether previously reported age-related declines in mindless reading episodes are due primarily to (a) situational features related to the text itself (e.g., text genre or interest in the text) and/or (b) individual differences in cognitive abili...

In this article, we will describe what text structure is and discuss its importance for reading comprehension. Then we will detail a method of teaching students to follow text structures as a content reading strategy. First, we will review research that suggests that the way in which text is organized and readers’ knowledge about text structure affect how much will be remembered after reading. ...

The purpose of this study to find out whether there is a significant effect GIST strategy teach reading comprehension in descriptive text seven grade students. This uses quantitative method. usedtrue experimental which took two classes randomly, VII I as class and H control class. instrument used test. result showed from mean the pretest 75.13 posttest 86.94. researchers ttest formula calculate...

Using a component processes task (CPT) that differentiates between higher-level cognitive processes of reading comprehension provides important advantages over commonly used general reading comprehension assessments. The present study contributes to further development of the CPT by evaluating the relative contributions of its components (text memory, text inferencing, and knowledge integration...