| 英文摘要 |
This study aimed to enhance seventh-grade students’reading comprehension of expository texts through an instructional program specifically focused on text structures. The program incorporated graphic organizers and notetaking strategies to increase students’awareness of various text structures and their ability to identify key content within texts. Conducted at a junior high school in northern Taiwan, the study involved 234 seventh-grade students, divided into 118 with high reading abilities and 116 with low reading abilities. The instruction consisted of five lessons on text structures. Students were required to read an article and take notes before and after the instruction. Their performance was measured by evaluating their note organization and the extent to which they captured key ideas. The results indicated significant improvements in the students’abilities to organize their notes by using graphic organizers and to identify key content, regardless of their initial reading ability levels. However, all students exhibited low performance in understanding sequence structures, presumably because of the inherent complexity of these structures or the difficulty of recognizing their cue words. Taken together, these findings underscore the effectiveness of combining graphic organizers with notetaking strategies in reading instruction, providing empirical support for future educational practices and instructional designs in this field. |