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. 2022 Jan 6;35(7):1497–1523. doi: 10.1007/s11145-021-10244-4

Table 2.

Materials analysis: overview of declarative knowledge results

Unit of analysis Yes % Example
Goals Among general objectives 1 Students learn the purpose, structure, and lay-out of many types of texts
Declarative lesson goals 5 19 You know the purposes of advertising
Theory Explicit review of all strategies (≥ 4) 5 13 You learn to apply all six key strategies
Text structure 3 10 There are fixed structures, like question–answer, cause-effect, then-now
Signaling words 6 13 ‘So’ is a signaling word for conclusion
Basic division intro-body-conclusion 4 5 A text has an introduction, a body and a conclusion. Paragraphs have white lines
Exercises Genre, local or global text structure 8 44 What are the features of a report? What is the structure of paragraph 1?

Yes = present in number of textbooks; % = percentage of all analyzed lessons