Teachers need to employ strategies that will help students understand content material as they are reading it. New interest in how to teach reading comprehension has been generated by the recognition that comprehension is not a passive, receptive process but is active, constructive, and reader based. The reader needs to sort facts from implications, identify the organization of the material, and use picture clues and text aids to help with understanding. Constructivism, a term that refers to what happens as a reader processes text (Pearson & Stephens, 1994), is one of the most influential views of learning proposed during the last two decades