Readers make connections between what they already know and the information in the text.
What is Activating Background Knowledge
100
Readers make thoughtful “guesses” about what will happen and then read to confirm their predictions.
What is Predicting
100
Readers evaluate both the text itself and their reading experience.
What is Evaluating
100
Readers ask themselves literal and inferential questions about the text.
What is Questioning
100
Readers use background knowledge and clues in the text to “read between the lines”.
What is Drawing Inferences
200
Readers notice the big ideas in the text and the relationships among them.
What is Determining Importance
200
Readers paraphrase the big ideas to create a concise statement.
What is Summarizing
200
Readers make text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text links.
What is Connecting
200
Readers supervise their reading experience checking that they’re understanding the text.
What is Monitoring
200
Readers create mental images of what they’re reading.
What is Visualizing
300
Readers identify a broad focus to direct their reading through the text.
What is Setting a Purpose
300
A creative, multifaceted thinking process in which students engage with the text.
What is Comprehension
300
The author lists items or events in numerical or chronological order. Cue words include: first, second, third, next, then, and finally.
What is Sequence
300
The author explains how two or more things are alike and/or how they’re different. Cue words include: different, in contrast, alike, same as, and on the other hand.
What is Comparison
300
Readers identify a problem interfering with comprehension and then solve it.
What is Repairing
400
The author lists one or more causes and the resulting effect or effects. Cue words include: reasons why, if…then, as a result, therefore, and because.
What is Cause and Effect
400
Used to examine children’s oral reading behaviors, analyze their comprehension, and determine their reading levels.
What is Running Records
400
The author describes a topic by listing characteristics and examples. Cue words include: for example and characteristics are.
What is Description
400
The author states a problem and lists one or more solutions. A variation is the question-and-answer format. Cue words include: problem is, dilemma is, puzzle is, solved, and question…answer.
What is Problem and Solution
400
Intrinsic, the innate curiosity that makes us want to figure things out.
What is Motivation
500
The 4 ways we think about reading are?
What is Literal, Inference, Critical, Evaluative
500
Used to examine student’s understanding of a text, students supply the deleted words in a passage taken from a text they’ve read.
What is Cloze Procedure
500
Three comprehension text factors are?
What is Genres, Text Structure, Text Features
500
Comprehension strategies in which students reflect on their own thinking.
What is Metacognitive Strategies
500
The most basic level of comprehension in which readers pick out main ideas, sequence details, notice similarities and differences, and identify explicitly stated reasons.