Questioning as thinking: A metacognitive framework to improve comprehension of expository text

Literacy

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 84-90

  Wilson, Nance Speizman ^a   Smetana, Linda ^b  

^a Lourdes College   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content area reading; Metacognition; Questioning; Think aloud

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960668937     PISSN: 17414350     EISSN: 17414369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4369.2011.00584.x     Document Type: Article

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