Comprehension Basics
According to the video, comprehension sits at the top of this educational framework.
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
This pre-reading strategy helps students connect the text to what they already know.
What is activating background knowledge (or schema)?
This teacher-led strategy models metacognition while reading aloud.
What is “read aloud think aloud”?
After reading, teachers should push students with this kind of question (rather than simple recall).
What are higher-order questions (how, why, say more about…)?
True or False: Independent reading is usually the best answer for struggling readers on certification exams.
What is False?
Comprehension is more than just identifying characters or keywords — it involves this type of thinking.
What is higher-order or critical thinking?
The “K” in a KWL chart stands for this.
What is “What you already Know”?
Breaking the text into smaller, digestible pieces is called this.
What is chunking the text?
One way to visually organize what happened first, second, and third in a text.
What is a sequencing map (or graphic organizer)?
Name one pre-reading strategy that exam graders expect you to know.
What is activating background knowledge, previewing the text, or pre-teaching vocabulary?
In elementary classrooms, teachers often ask students to retell stories using these three basic parts.
What are beginning, middle, and end?
Teachers often introduce tough words before reading to build comprehension. This is called ____.
What is pre-teaching vocabulary?
When young readers stop and say, “Does this make sense?” they are practicing this skill.
What is self-monitoring comprehension?
A common elementary reading comprehension task where students tell the “gist” of the story in one sentence.
What is summarizing?
If a student can decode words but struggles to understand the text, the skill they need help with is ____.
What is comprehension?
Name two types of texts teachers should balance when teaching comprehension.
What are literary texts and informational texts?
Besides discussion, name one other way teachers can activate prior knowledge.
What is showing a video, displaying a picture, or using a graphic organizer?
Independent reading is most appropriate for which type of students?
Who are students who already have strong comprehension skills?
Instead of asking students to name the characters, a better after-reading question might ask this.
What is “How do the characters interact and move the story forward?”
On exams, constructed response questions may ask about students struggling with this reading skill.
What is reading comprehension?
Good readers make three kinds of connections while reading: text-to-self, text-to-text, and this one.
What is text-to-world?
One popular picture walk strategy has students look through illustrations before reading to do this.
What is making predictions?
Asking students to picture scenes in their heads while reading practices this comprehension strategy.
What is visualizing (or creating mental images)?
Teachers sometimes ask students to share their opinions and back them up with text evidence. This is practicing ____.
What is making inferences (or citing textual evidence)?
If two answers on a test seem correct, choose the one that focuses more on this — the teacher’s role.
What is explicit instruction (or teacher modeling)?