Improving students’ narrative comprehension through a multiple strategy approach. Effects of Dialogic Strategy Instruction in secondary school.

This article reports on an intervention study using a multiple strategy approach—called Dialogic Strategy Instruction (DSI)—to improve seventh grade students' narrative comprehension in terms of students' ability to generate inferences and develop interpretations of characters and events. DSI combines strategy instruction with dialogical principles for classroom discussion and response writing. After a 13-week intervention period, students in...