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Volume 4, Issue 1, October 2011
Special Issue: Reading Comprehension
Special Issue Editor: Karen M. Zabrucky

    
   
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Editorial Letter
Kamil Özerk
 
Papers  

Introduction to The Special Issue Research on Reading Comprehension:  Past, Present, and Future
Karen M. Zabrucky
1  
     
How Reading Comprehension is Embodied and Why That Matters
Arthur M. Glenberg 		5  
     
Improving Middle and High School Students' Comprehension
of Science Texts
Brandi E. Johnson & Karen M. Zabrucky		 19  
     
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Translating Advances in Reading Comprehension Research to
Educational Practice
Danielle S. McNamara & Panayiota Kendeou		 33    
       
The Role of Verbal Working Memory in Second Language Reading
Fluency and Comprehension: A Comparison of English and Korean
Hye K. Pae & Rose A. Sevcik		 47    
       
Individual Differences in Children’s Knowledge of Expository
Text Structures: A Review of Literature
Melissa N. Ray & Bonnie J. F. Meyer		 67    
       
The Differential Relations between Verbal, Numerical and Spatial
Working Memory Abilities and Children's Reading Comprehension
Jane Oakhill, Nicola Yuill & Alan Garnham		 83    
       
The Effects of Syntactic and Lexical Complexity on the
Comprehension of Elementary Science Texts
Diana J. Arya, Elfrieda H. Hiebert & P. David Pearson		 107    
       
Structure Strategy Interventions: Increasing Reading Comprehension of
Expository Text
Bonnie J. F. Meyer & Melissa N. Ray		 127    
       
Eye-tracking as a tool in process-oriented reading test validation
Oddny Judith Solheim & Per Henning Uppstad		 153    
       
The Emergence of Comprehension: A Decade of Research 2000-2010
Caitlin McMunn Dooley		 169    
       
The Effects of Reading Method on the Comprehension Performance of
Saudi EFL Students
Yousif Alshumaimeri		 185    
       
Children’s Comprehension of Informational Text:
Reading, Engaging, and Learning
Linda Baker, Mariam Jean Dreher, Angela Katenkamp Shiplet,
Lisa Carter Beall, Anita N. Voelker, Adia J. Garrett, Heather R. Schugar,
& Maria Finger-Elam		 197    
       
Comprehension Challenges in the Fourth Grade: The Roles of
Text Cohesion, Text Genre, and Readers’ Prior Knowledge
Danielle S. McNamara, Yasuhiro Ozuru, & Randy G. Floyd		 229    
       
Preparing for reading comprehension: Fostering text comprehension
skills in preschool and early elementary school children
Paul van den Broek, Panayiota Kendeou, Sandra Lousberg, & Gootje Visser		 259