Text
Questions
Language
Vocabulary
Comprhension
100
Text that tells a story or that relates events or dialogue; fiction.
What is narrative text?
100
Readers make this by drawing on their own background knowledge or finding clues in the text when the author has not provided information directly.
What is inference?
100
A meaning that is not literal; the meaning is more picturesque, implying something other than what is said on the surface.
Example
- Your bright! (A person does not light up a room like a light bulb. This implies they are very smart or the clothes they are wearing have vibrant colors.)
What is figurative meaning?
100
This is a way of teaching vocabulary directly that uses visual imagery (something for a student to look at) to help students understand and retain word meanings
What is keyword method?
100
Understanding what is read and the ability to recall facts from what was in the text.
What is comprehension?
200
Text that is written to inform, persuade, or explain; nonfiction writing. Such as, reference books and journals?
What is expository text?
200
Questions that students can find the information for directly in the text.
What is literal questions?
200
A speech form or expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of the separate words comprising it, but instead must be learned as a whole.
What is idiom?
200
The words and sentences around an unknown word that, along with the reader’s background knowledge, help identify it or explain its meaning.
What is context?
200
When the subject of a sentence is the recipient of the action rather than the actor. These sentences, such as, “The barking dog was chased by the yellow cat,” are more difficult to understand.
What is passive voice?
300
When readers are this, they are consistently asking themselves, “Is what I am reading making sense?”
What is monitoring text?
300
Inferential questions that require readers to determine whether they agree with the author based on their own knowledge and experience.
What is evaluative questions?
300
The central idea around which a piece of text is organized. It may be stated explicitly.
What is the main idea?
300
This involves understanding the meaning of words when people speak.
What is receptive vocabulary?
300
A technique used before reading to activate students’ prior knowledge, discuss critical knowledge and vocabulary needed to understand the text, and provide information on text structures and comprehension strategies that are useful in understanding the text.
What is frontloading?
400
A gauge of text difficulty influenced by factors such as sentence and word length as well as graphic aids such as maps or picture
What is text readability?
400
Questions for which the answers are not explicitly stated in the text. Readers use hints and clues in the text along with their own knowledge and experience to answer them.
What is inferential questions?
400
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implied comparison that is not directly stated, as in “a sea of troubles.”
What is metaphor?
400
Oral expressive vocabulary means using words in speaking so that other people understand you.
What is expressive vocabulary?
400
A logical conclusion or educated guess arrived at by reasoning from evidence rather than relying on direct observation.
What is inference?
500
Describes how well the parts of text relate to one another. This is determined by whether the pronouns clearly refer to a person or thing in the text; whether repetitions of the same word or variations of it are used to link concepts; and the frequency of omission of words that the reader should understand.
What is text cohesion?
500
Inferential questions that require readers to infer as they gather multiple pieces of information throughout the text as a support for their “big idea.”
What is synthesizing?
500
When students read several differ- ent texts about the same topi
What is narrow reading?
500
Early success in acquiring reading skills often results in later success in reading because a good reader becomes an even more highly skilled reader, acquiring more vocabulary and background knowledge as a result of reading more; also expressed as “the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
What is Matthew Effect?
500
Pronouns, nouns, or figurative phrases that refer to another word or name
What is anaphora?