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<p>Self-regulated reading is an effective approach to foster reading comprehension, but many teachers are insecure about how to support strategic reading in natural classrooms. For a successful implementation of self-regulated reading into language and content area teaching discipline-specific strategy-oriented reading instruction has to be defined. This study analyzes teachers’ perspectives (<italic>N</italic> = 231) on the instruction of self-regulated reading in German language teaching, biology, and mathematics classes. The study reveals subject differences (e.g. the frequency of cognitive strategies in class), but also commonalities between subjects (e.g. the instruction of cognitive strategies and the frequency of metacognitive strategies, the activation of resource management strategies). The perspective on teachers’ discipline-specific reading instruction sheds light on content-specific as well as also cross-curricular reading instruction routines.</p>
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Self-regulated reading is an effective approach to foster reading comprehension, but many teachers are insecure about how to support strategic reading in natural classrooms. For a successful implementation of self-regulated reading into language and content area teaching discipline-specific strategy-oriented reading instruction has to be defined. This study analyzes teachers’ perspectives (N = 231) on the instruction of self-regulated reading in German language teaching, biology, and mathematics classes. The study reveals subject differences (e.g. the frequency of cognitive strategies in class), but also commonalities between subjects (e.g. the instruction of cognitive strategies and the frequency of metacognitive strategies, the activation of resource management strategies). The perspective on teachers’ discipline-specific reading instruction sheds light on content-specific as well as also cross-curricular reading instruction routines.

Reading instruction in 5<sup>th</sup> grade: teachers’ perspectives on promoting self-regulated reading in language and content area teaching

Research in Subject-matter Teaching and Learning (RISTAL)

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Reading instruction in 5 grade: teachers’ perspectives on promoting self-regulated reading in language and content area teaching

Self-regulated reading is an effective approach to foster reading comprehension, but many teachers are insecure about how to support strategic reading in...

Reading instruction in 5^th grade: teachers’ perspectives on promoting self-regulated reading in language and content area teaching

Published Online: Jun 14, 2022

Page range: 16 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23770/rt1822

Keywords
reading strategies, text comprehension, teacher education, reading didactics

© 2019 Anke Schmitz, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Reading instruction in 5th grade: teachers’ perspectives on promoting self-regulated reading in language and content area teaching

Published Online: Jun 14, 2022

Page range: 16 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23770/rt1822

Keywordsreading strategies, text comprehension, teacher education, reading didactics

© 2019 Anke Schmitz, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Reading instruction in 5^th grade: teachers’ perspectives on promoting self-regulated reading in language and content area teaching

Keywords
reading strategies, text comprehension, teacher education, reading didactics