ISSN: 1088-8438 (Print) 1532-799X (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hssr20 Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension Charles Perfetti & Joseph Stafura To cite this article: Charles Perfetti & Joseph Stafura (2014) Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension, Scientific Studies of Reading, 18:1, 22-37, DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2013.827687 To link to this ar...

I n the 1970s, Alan Kay and his colleagues at Xerox PARC envisioned a dynamic, interactive electronic book. Now, nearly 30 years later, that vision has become a reality. A new kind of personal information appliance—the reading appli-ance—is emerging as a tool for serious readers. But is the world ready for reading appliances? Paper books are not only useful but are also a romantic icon of moder...

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading patron access issues for online catalogs is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages. The advantages...

With easy access to and exponential growth of online resources in the last decade, the Web has become the primary information source to middle school students for their school work. Yet, prior research has shown that students have difficulty evaluating, reading, and taking notes from online resources. This study analyzed the effectiveness of a digital notepad, which used prompts to scaffold mid...

We have conducted a partly longitudinal study using online questionnaires at four Swedish local online newspapers in two different studies. The objective of this paper is to describe the users’ demographics and reading habits as well as the users’ expectations of current and future issues regarding the online edition. We also discuss online questionnaires having tried three different approaches...