The Landscape of Expository Comprehension

Using a theory-into-practice model, first illustrates how proficient readers think with exposition and then moves the reader through steps for analyzing the comprehension roadblocks found in informational text. The second half translates those understandings into strategies and teaching methodologies designed to help student readers build increasingly proficient text-negotiation abilities as they learn how to with text and make accurate inferences. Because it is built on a model of proficiency, this text-processing framework is effective across grade levels, genres, and disciplines, as well as with developing, struggling, or proficient readers.