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Cognition and Instruction, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2000), pp. 525-556 (32 pages) The importance of causal structure has been well documented in text comprehension research. This study investigates how both ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...