Session 1: What is the goal of reading comprehension?
Those who teache younger students must address this
Language comprehension through oral language communication.
_____Makes it challenging to assess
The multidimensional nature of reading comprehension
Preexisting knowledge of pacts and ideas necessary to make inferences is defined as
Background knowledge
The system of rules governing permissible word order in sentences
Syntax
The property of sticking together into a consistent whole; can refer to a quality of text or to the representaion of meaning in a person's mind.
Coherence
This relies on many covert or hidden mental activities.
Good reading comprehension
Never rely on ______ to make determinations about a student's reading compression.
One test
Schema
This can trip up students whose exposure to academic language is limited or EL's whose first language has different syntax from English
Sheer unfamiliarity with the structures of sentences in academic writing
Assumptions that a reader makes based on evidence from the text and the readers own experiences is referred to as this.
Inferences
The underlying ideas to which words in a text refer.
Text Base
Areas of this are important for understanding how to approach comprehension problems when they are occurring.
This implies that students in any classroom are already advantaged or disadvantaged by what they know.
The relationship between existing knowledge and reading comprehension.
Complete sentences have these two parts
A complete subject and a complete predicate
The parts of speech that connect words, phrases, clauses or complete ideas in such a way that they make sense.
Conjunctions
The mental representation of a text's meaning that locates those meanings with a wide context of time, place and circumstance is defined as
mental model
When students received this, their reading comprehension was significantly better than that of students who did not receive this kind of instruction.
direct systematic teaching to improve their understanding of oral language
Students can learn more from a text if
A purpose is explicitly stated for them at the outset.
When students understand how sentences can be constructed.
The understanding of meaning in longer segments of connected text, whether written or spoken
Discourse comprehension
______Refers to literal word and phrase meaning in a sentence
Surface Code
These students are usually expected to learn English at the same time they are learning the content and background information they need to support comprehension
EL students
Avoid handing any text to young students without
deliberate preparation for reading (or listening to) the text first.
As students develop this, hey will be able to group words into phrases and read with appropriate prosody or expression
A sense of the underlying structure of syntax
A visual representation of the logical relationships among ideas.
Graphic Organizer