elements w/in story
What is the first organizational type of text structure
What is Genre
how a text is organized to help readers understand the information presented.
words that link sentences and paragraphs together and are essential for comprehension because they give the reader clues about what is happening
What is Signal Words
When and where a story takes place
What is setting
A gauge of text difficulty influenced by factors such as sentence and word length as well as graphic aids such as maps or pictures
Text readability
Describes how well the parts of text relate to one another.
Text Cohesion
a sequence of events that inform the reader what happened.
What is a Plot
Text that tells a story or that relates events or dialogue (fiction)
Narrative Text
the teacher increases her voice volume as she says the words that were difficult for the students.
What is Pause and Punch
The subject or message that the author of narrative text wants to convey
What is Theme
Text that is written to inform, persuade, or explain. (nonfiction)
Expository Text
To comprehend text, readers relate the sentences they read to each other as well as to what they already know
What is working memory
Structure that the story follows
What is Story Grammar
defines text difficulty in terms of the number of words at a given curriculum level that students are unlikely to know
What is Critical Word Factor
the knowledge and skills that readers bring to the reading process, also strongly influence comprehension
What is Prior Knowledge