Effects of a Direct Instruction Main Idea Summarization Program and Self‐monitoring on Reading Comprehension of Middle School Students With Learning Disabilities

The Effect of Teaching Summarization Strategies on Reading Comprehension of Science and Humanities Iranian High school Students

“…The results of the study showed that having achieved an awareness of summarizing strategy, students can have a better command of a variety of practices that they can use for successful summaries of the passages. The findings of this study in line with the other researchers (Aghaei, & Zhang, 2012;Al-Nujaidi, 2003;Al-Seweed, 2000;Jitendraa, et al, 2006;Karbalaei & Rajyashree, 2010;Pakzadian & Eslami Rasekh, 2012;Shang, 2010;Sheorey et al, 2008;) showed that reading comprehension tests can help the students to follow the steps of the summarizing process to identify topics, main ideas, and details, and to write summaries. It can be concluded that when students are exposed to summarizing strategy, they become aware of the processes that can be applied in better understanding the reading passages and they can view the passage as a whole unit in which knowledge of the parts can be attained by paying attention to the preceding and following sections of the passage.…”

Reading Comprehension Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities

“…In a related study, Graves and Levin (1989) documented that self-monitoring of main ideas was more effective than a mnemonic condition for discerning main ideas in texts. Similarly, Jitendra, Cole, Hoppes, and Wilson (1998) affirmed the positive effects of direct instruction and selfmonitoring fo r identifying main ideas in passages for three 6th-grade students with LD.…”

Using Read-Alouds of Grade-Level Biographies and Systematic Prompting to Promote Comprehension for Students With Moderate and Severe Developmental Disabilities

“…For example, Gajria and Salvia (1992) found teaching five summarization rules (Brown & Day, 1983) improved comprehension of expository text for 15 students with learning disabilities in Grades 6 through 9. Jitendra, Cole, Hoppes, and Wilson (1998) found rules for summarizing the main idea and selfmonitoring improved reading comprehension for three Grade 6 students with learning disabilities.…”