34th Article "Writing strategies for fostering reading comprehension"

Ayu Rini Tri Utari
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"Writing strategies for fostering reading comprehension"

   This article explain about the analyse metacognitive strategies in writing for more comprehendible texts can be trained in elementary grades. Especially in tje field of fostering reading comprehension. They have reformulated two expository texts from textbooks used in (4-7th) grade of elementary education in concordance to the writing tactics, and tested student's comprehension. According to result, reading comprehension improved significantly for the reformulated texts. An eight-week writing instructional program was applied in 4th grade clasess, indicated significant increase in using metacognitive strategies in writing.