Before Reading Strategies
This strategy activates prior knowledge by having students share what they already know.
What is a K-W-L chart?
This strategy asks students to stop and create mental images as they read.
What is visualizing?
A simple after-reading comprehension check that can be done orally is called...
What is an oral retell?
The Simple View of Reading formula is...
Decoding x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension
Words students often encounter in academic texts (e.g. compare, analyze) are known as....
What are Tier 2 vocabulary words?
Spending time to look at the text's headings, visuals, and structure is known as this.
What is a text walk or previewing?
When the teacher prompts students to think about what can be concluded based on what the characters said and did, she is asking them to....
What is make inferences?
When students are asked to separate what is important from what is interesting, they are learning the comprehension skill of...
What is Determining Importance?
According to SOR, comprehension depends heavily on this system of word meaning.
What is semantics?
Teaching students how prefixes, suffixes, and roots help unlock meaning supports....
What is complex vocabulary?
This motivational routine helps build purpose by prompting students to predict what they will learn.
What is setting a purpose for reading?
Marking confusion, surprises, or important ideas on sticky notes or margins is a form of....
What is annotating (or monitoring comprehension)?
After reading a nonfiction text, students might complete this type of chart to organize information.
What is a graphic organizer?
Reading comprehension is impossible without this foundational ability, which involves efficiently identifying words.
What is accurate and automatic word recognition?
Words like 'duck', 'glasses', and 'bat' are called...
What are multiple-meaning words?
Before reading, teachers may introduce words students will encounter. This is called....
What is frontloading vocabulary or just pre-teaching vocabulary?
This structure helps students understand where answers come from in the text.
What is QAR?
Students share written or verbal reflections connecting the text to their own life. This is called....
What is a text to self connection?
Background knowledge about the world, categories, and experiences that helps comprehension is known as.....
What is schema?
When a student struggles to determine the author's purpose, we can assess that this area of comprehension is still a struggle.
What is inferential and evaluative comprehension?
In the BDA framework, the Before phase aligns with this key cognitive process.
What is activating schema?
When students can monitor their own comprehension while reading, they are demonstrating skill in...
What is metacognition?
When students can combine new information with prior knowledge to come to a new understanding, it is called...
What is synthesis?
This component of Scarborough's Reading Rope includes vocabulary, background knowledge, syntax, and verbal reasoning.
What is Language Comprehension?
Complex sentences that include subordinate clauses build comprehension by strengthening this linguistic system.
What is syntax?