QUESTIONS WITH EXPLANATIONS
Vocabulary Strategies (7) - Answer-- identifying synonyms and antonyms
- discussing word origins, roots and affixes
- Thinking maps
- definitions
- develop word banks (list of words to support students)
- incorporating new vocabulary in discussions and writing
* provide the student with the vocab word in a sentence and the definition, then have
the student create their own sentence using the word, restate the definition i their own
words , and provide a picture representing the word
Fluency - Answer-smoothness of speech
Reading Comprehension - Answer-the ability to read text, process it, and understand its
meaning
Factors that prevent Comprehension - Answer-- syntax
- text structures
- students level of comprehension
- their. ability to infer information from text, finding meaning
"the way sentences are worded"
Reading Comprehension strategies - Answer-- summarizing
- outlining
- responding to text
An outline could be considered an ordered list of the topics or ideas.
A summary, you condense an article and use your own words to present the main
ideas.
Responding to text - A text response is a style of writing in which you are sharing your
reaction to something. It is an opportunity to let the world know how you feel about
something.
- Re-read text
- Think aloud (talk through it)
, - refer back to text to find evidence to support your answer
- Use context clues - hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader
can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
- locate key words
- graphic organizers
- visuals
- visualize
Types of Comprehension * - Answer-literal - literally there
inferential - the underlying message
evaluative - evaluation of text to come to own conclusion, true or false
You can state for example:
The student has good literal recall
or
The student struggles with inferential recall
Inferring (reading strategy) - Answer-This strategy allows you to draw a conclusion
based on the clues the author's writing provides and what you yourself know
(background knowledge). In other words, the clues and your own experience allow you
to "read between the lines" and understand something that happened that the author
does not come right out and say.
This is gathered through comprehension
the student may be struggling with comprehension because they are not inferring
meaning
The student may nor enjoy reading because the are struggling to infer meaning from the
text
Reasoning & Background Knowledge - Answer-Evaluating text and coming to their own
conclusion
Working Memory & Attention - Answer-Working memory capacity is involved in reading
comprehension because one needs to store previously read text in mind while
simultaneously manipulating words and their meanings to create a coherent
representation of the text
Instructional Reading Strategies & Skills (4) - Answer-summarizing, visualizing,
organizing, and questioning