The Landscape of Expository Comprehension: Teaching Non-Fiction Text Processing focuses on facilitating instruction from the viewpoint of how proficient readers think with informational text. Expository text requires a completely different set of cognitive strategies from those of narrative. You will learn a different way of thinking about text, readers, and instruction. It is not about filling holes or finding band-aids. Instead, it is about the process of becoming proficient. 

Using a theory-into-practice model, Landscape first illustrates how proficient readers think with exposition and then moves the reader through steps for analyzing the comprehension roadblocks found in informational text. The second half translates those understandings into strategies and teaching methodologies designed to help student readers build increasingly proficient text-negotiation abilities as they learn how to think with text and make accurate inferences. Because it is built on a model of proficiency, this text-processing framework is effective across grade levels, genres, and disciplines, as well as with developing, struggling, or proficient readers.