Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theories, Interventions, and Technologies

This volume provides an overview of reading comprehension strategies and strategy interventions that have been shown empirically to be effective in helping readers to overcome comprehension challenges. This volume differs from other books that might be found on reading strategies in two important ways.There is a heavy focus throughout on theories of reading comprehension: How well do current models of reading comprehension account for the importance of reading strategies? And most important, how do theories of reading comprehension motivate and support reading comprehension interventions?