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Factors Affecting the Comprehension Process
Organizational Structure of Expository Text
Analysis Of Informational Text
Assessments
Miscellaneous
100
What are the three factors that affect comprehension?
Factors within the reader, factors within the readers' environment and factors within the text
100
What are the nine organizational structures of expository text?
Chronology or sequence, description or enumeration, listing, classification or hierarchy, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution and persuasion.
100
What are the elements that should be considered when picking out an informational text?
eye appeal, traditional book features, electronic text features, writing style, use of technical vocabulary and readability.
100
What types of informal assessments are used to assess comprehension of an informational text?
IRIs, rubrics, running records and miscue analysis, cloze and maze procedures, assessing reading interests, assessing background knowledge, vocabulary assessment and assessing readers' growth.
100
What are the six guidelines to selecting an informational text?
Have reference aids, be well organized, have charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs or illustrations, fit the students' background knowledge, focusing on appropriate vocabulary and reading level, contain plentiful of white space, and introduces new vocabulary words in boldface type or highlighted text.
200
What are three of the basic skills necessary to comprehend all types of text?
Any of the ten factors listed on page 217 of the textbook.
200
How do authors use listing?
Authors merely list all of the things that fall into a particular category.
200
What are the traditional book features of a trade book?
a table of contents, a glossary, questions at the beginning and end of each chapter and highlighted vocabulary words.
200
What types of formal assessment are used to assess students comprehension of an informational text?
Standardized Norm-Referenced Achievement Tests and Standardized Criterion-Referenced Tests.
200
How can singing be a helpful strategy for ELL when working with informational text?
Singing helps facilitate phonics, phonemic awareness, rhymes, memorization and vocabulary.
300
What are skills that students need to comprehend informational texts?
The five factors listed on page 217 of the textbook.
300
What is an example of chronology or sequence pattern?
The example at the bottom of page 221.
300
Why is it important to analyze the writing style of an informational text?
In order for a student to comprehend what they have read, they must be able to understand the voice, mood, sentence structure and presentation of facts.
300
What are the four methods Dale, O'Rourke, and Bamman suggest when assessing readers' vocabulary knowledge?
Ask students to give the definition orally or in writing, have students complete a multiple-choice exercise, have them complete a matching exercise and ask students to check words they know in a list.
300
How was your first day of practicum?
Answers may very!
400
What are the factors within the reader's environment that effect a students reading comprehension?
Home, Community and School
400
What type of text is the organizational structure cause/effect used in?
Often found in science text
400
What are two ways authors introduce technical vocabulary in informational text?
Boldface, give a definition first then state the vocabulary word, introduce a term and then set off the definition in commas or dash or a mix of techniques.
400
What is the purpose of assessing reading interests?
To get a student: "hooked on reading".
400
What is the goal of sheltered instruction when working with ELL students and informational text?
To teach content and academic language simultaneously to a small group.
500
Using a variety of reading materials requires students to...?
Synthesize information, analyze authors' credentials and apply critical-thinking skills when confronted with conflicting information.
500
Although: is a key word associated with what organizational structure?
Compare/Contrast
500
Because online texts do not usually have a table of contents, or an index it is important for teachers to make sure...?
That each page on the screen has main headings and subheadings of large print and/or a different front so students can see the material's organization.
500
What type of assessment is the most accurate in assessing a student's growth in reading informational texts?
Assessing readers' growth.
500
As students read about current and historical events they need to...?
discuss the political, sociocultural, historical, and economic forces that affect their lives - and question them - in order to become aware of their social responsibilities.