"What's the Main Idea?": Using Text Structure to Build Comprehension.

This teaching tip aims to build awareness of using a text's structure as a framework for building students' reading comprehension. The authors detail the Framework for Accelerating the Strategic Comprehension of Text (FASCT) to support elementary students reading comprehension abilities by explicitl...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Reading Teacher Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 113 - 119
Main Authors: Hudson, Alida K., Owens, Julie, Moore, Karol A., Lambright, Kacee, Wijekumar, Kausalai
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2021
Subjects:
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=151882525&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 151882525
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00340561
        RET
      jtl: Reading Teacher
      issn: 00340561
      maglogo: Y
    pubinfo:
      dt: Jul2021
      vid: 75
      iid: 1
      pid: 480
      pub: Wiley-Blackwell
    artinfo:
      ui:
        151882525
        10.1002/trtr.2016
      ppf: 113
      ppct: 6
      formats:
        fmt:
          @attributes:
            type: P
            size: 270KB
      tig:
        atl: "What's the Main Idea?": Using Text Structure to Build Comprehension.
      aug:
        au:
          Hudson, Alida K.
          Owens, Julie
          Moore, Karol A.
          Lambright, Kacee
          Wijekumar, Kausalai
      su:
        Reading comprehension
        Teaching
        Students
        Teachers
        Comprehension
      sug:
        subj:
          Reading comprehension
          Teaching
          Students
          Teachers
          Comprehension
      keyword:
        2‐Childhood
        3‐Early adolescence
        4‐Adolescence
        Instructional strategies
        Summarizing
        teaching strategies
        Text features
        text structure
      ab: This teaching tip aims to build awareness of using a text's structure as a framework for building students' reading comprehension. The authors detail the Framework for Accelerating the Strategic Comprehension of Text (FASCT) to support elementary students reading comprehension abilities by explicitly teaching students to use the structure of a text to support the development of a main idea statement after every text read. FASCT then teaches students to expand this main idea statement into a summary by adding key supporting details. Furthermore, this teaching tip outlines how teachers can implement FASCT instruction using any genre of text. Although comprehension instruction, such as FASCT, is only one part of the overall literacy block, it may be essential for building a solid foundation from which students' complex comprehension skills can grow.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: Copyright of Reading Teacher is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
      item: Reading Teacher
      holder: Wiley-Blackwell
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2021
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N