Memory and Learning
Our mental workspace that is limited in capacity and duration
Working Memory
The three variables that impact comprehension and must be considered when planning lessons
Reader, Text and Task
Consider multiple bits of information at one time and actively switch between them.
Cognitive Flexibility
Monitoring understanding while reading
Metacognition
Comprehension is not a ...
Skill or single thing
Has unlimited capacity and can store information for hours or for a lifetime.
Long term memory
The variables that impact text complexity (name two)
Structure, vocabulary, sentence length, syntax, cohesion, figurative language, academic language
Ignore or suppress irrelevant or distracting information.
Inhibition
Understanding of multiple meaning words, depth and breadth and word relationships
Vocabulary
Standards measure comprehension, they don't...
create comprehension
A mental framework that stores information around a topic
Schema
Text medium that supports better comprehension
Text on paper (not screens)
Track understanding while reading and employ strategies when needed.
Monitoring
Create understanding not stated in the text but by integrating text with background knowledge
Inference
Students can not analyze a text if they don't first...
understand the text.
This interrupts forgetting
Retrieval practice or Checks for Understanding
comprehension, memory, and/or deeper understanding
Managing information, connecting new information to schemas, discarding irrelevant information and connecting ideas.
Organization
Genre, syntax, paragraphs and cohesion
Structure
Students, typically, can understand language at levels much higher than their reading level until the age of...
13