Vocabulary
These are used for analyzing a story into parts.
What are story grammars/schemes?
These use visual symbols to express knowledge and concepts through relationships between them.
What are graphic organizers?
This is a framework within which the teacher supplies whatever assistance or guidance students need to read a selection successfully.
What is guided reading?
This is a running summary of the text
What is macrostructure?
These are asked to help students make inferences in a text.
What are questions?
This is where students fill in missing words that force them as the reader to use semantic and syntactic clues together with symbol sound information to predict meaning.
What is the Cloze procedure?
These are used to assist students in adding other elements such as theme & conflict to complex stories.
What are story maps?
This is when students are writing for a purpose, instead of writing random information in a text.
What is writing for organization?
This is an affective and cognitive skill that allows students to be able to suspend judgment and consider other viewpoints.
What is critical reading?
These are the transformation of text into ideas or details as students read.
What are propositions?
This usually entails examining several facts or details and coming to some sort of reasoned judgment based on the information.
What is drawing logical conclusions?
This is the way the author has organized his or her ideas.
What is text structure?
This is when you search the text for information to support your thoughts and ideas.
What is finding textual evidence?