Using Think‐Alouds to Examine Reader‐Text Interest

S Using multiple measures, this two‐part investigation examined what text characteristics readers considered interesting and uninteresting, the relationships among these text characteristics, and how interest affected recall in two different expository texts on a high‐interest topic—dinosaurs. Based on think‐alouds and postreading verbal reports of college students in the first experiment, five text characteristics were most associated with...