Bernadette Van Hout-Wolters and Wolfgang Schnotz

• Introduction 1. Text comprehension and learning from text: An introduction Part I: Text Structures 2. Expository text and propositional text processing 3. Important information in expository prose: The role of awareness of textual structure and of the skill in ranking ideas in a text 4. Hypermedia and knowledge acquisition from non-linear expository text 5. Text comprehension and typographical features of elementary school text books 6. A procedure for the design of illustrated texts Part II: Learner Abilities And Attitudes 7. Pragmatic knowledge in expository text comprehension: A recall study with young readers 8. Comprehension of story content in adolescents: Influences of age and cognitive competence 9. Affect, reading behaviour and reading achievement Part III: Processing And Learning Strategies 10. Uncertainty in text comprehension: Clues and effects 11. The development and the usage of some particular cognitive strategies concerning text processing in physics and in history 12. Teaching active text processing strategies: Some experimental results 13. The influence of an educator’s interactive style on the process of comprehension in preschool-age children