Factors Affecting Comprehension
Before, During, and After Reading
Assessing Comprehension
Literary Texts
Expository Texts
100
This level of comprehension means understanding the surface meaning of a text.
What is Literal Comprehension
100
You should set a purpose for reading at this time.
What is before reading
100
Comprehension lessons should be taught at this reading level.
What is the instructional reading level
100
Science Fiction, Poetry, Folktales, and Contemporary Realistic Fiction are examples of these.
What are genres.
100
The table of contents, index, glossary, and guide words are examples of this.
What are expository text features
200
This level of comprehension means interpreting what you have read.
What is Inferential Comprehension
200
The strategies of visualizing, paraphrasing, summarizing and predicting are useful at this time.
What is during reading
200
This is a way to assess comprehension in younger readers.
What is Retelling
200
Character, plot, setting, mood, theme, and style are examples of this.
What are literary elements OR story grammar
200
Cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, and description are examples of these.
What are expository text structures
300
This level of comprehension means making judgements about a text.
What is Evaluative Comprehension
300
Taking a "picture walk" with younger students should take pace at this time.
What is before reading
300
Comprehension assessments should be based on these.
What are standards
300
In a literary genre unit, these students will benefit from clarifying the cultural context and pre teaching key vocabulary.
What are English learners
300
Encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, and atlases are this kind of expository text.
What are reference texts
400
This theory states that reading requires 2 main tasks, 1) decoding words, and 2) understanding the meaning of the text.
What is automaticity theory.
400
These students will benefit from reteaching and additional practice.
Who are struggling readers
400
Assessments of comprehension should be used to create these.
What are individual/class profiles
400
Hyperbole, imagery, irony, and foreshadowing are elements of this.
What is (the author's) style
400
SQ3R is a strategy for in-depth reading, and stands for these 5 words.
What are survey, question, read, recite, and review
500
Recognizing bias and unsupported assumptions, judging content and characters, and analyzing themes are all skills related to which level of comprehension?
What is Evaluative Comprehension
500
Right There, Think and Search, Author and You, and On My Own are types of this.
What are QARs (Question-Answer Relationships)
500
Assessments should reveal why students are doing this.
What is performing below expectations
500
An outcome of literary analysis, this term means judgments or evaluations made about a story.
What is literary criticism
500
Word length, the number of syllables in a passage, and the number of words in sentences are all used to calculate this.
What is readability