Reading comprehension

I’m mostly interested in adult reading comprehension, particularly of difficult explanatory texts. Scattered notes:

• People often struggle to remember details of prose text because they never processed them in the first place
  • (see 2023-06-30, 2023-08-01, 2023-08-31 patron letters)

Interventions:

• Adjunct questions
  • Reading comprehension questions can uncover textbase holes
  • Reading comprehension questions are unpleasant
  • Textbook problem sets aren’t great reading comprehension checks
  • Adjunct questions improve comprehension of related but untested content
  • The mnemonic medium may push readers to read more slowly and attentively
• Self-explanation
  • Elaborative verbal rehearsal
  • iSTART
  • McNamara, D. (2004). SERT: Self-explanation reading training. Discourse Processes, 38(1), 1–30
• Outlining (reading comprehension)
• Concept mapping
• Prompt-writing supports reading comprehension