ABSTRACT
The ability to read informational text is a critical skill both in the workplace and in the classroom. The literacy needs of adults center primarily on obtaining information from nonfiction texts (Venezky, 2000), and the literacy demands of today’s technological society require that students be able to read and write in the digital world as well as in the world of print (Schmar-Dobler, 2003). Success in navigating the digital world, for example, requires the ability to read the text found on Internet Web sites, which is primarily expository (Kamil & Lane, 1997), and to evaluate and synthesize information from multiple online sources (Schmar-Dobler).
