ABSTRACT
We begin this chapter with a defi nition of constructively responsive reading comprehension strategies. We then describe the theoretical and practical signifi cance of the investigation of strategies. Next, we consider the means to investigate these strategies, noting recent developments in new and mixed methodologies that help us catalog and describe the diverse constructively responsive reading comprehension strategies and their uses. We describe strategies of reading comprehension, with a focus on recent research of the strategies involved in reading multiple documents and in Internet and hypertext reading. We conclude by proposing future directions for research of the constructively reading comprehension strategies and for the methodologies that enable this inquiry.
