期刊名称：International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
印刷版ISSN：1307-9298
出版年度：2017
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：19-31
语种：English
出版社：International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
其他摘要：Throughout the United States, many middle and high school students struggle to comprehendscience texts for a variety of reasons. Science texts are frequently boring, focused on isolated facts,present too many new concepts at once, and lack the clarity and organization known to improvecomprehension. Compounding the problem is that many adolescent readers do not possess effectivecomprehension strategies, particularly for difficult expository science texts. Some researchers havesuggested changing the characteristics of science texts to better assist adolescent readers withunderstanding, while others have focused on changing the strategies of adolescent readers. In thecurrent paper, we review the literature on selected strategy instruction programs used to improvescience text comprehension in middle and high school students and suggest avenues for futureresearch.
