Reading Comprehension Flashcards
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The inference reading strategy requires readers to:
Answer: Use background knowledge and text clues to understand information not directly stated
Inference involves using implicit text clues combined with background knowledge to construct meaning beyond what is literally stated in the text.
Which reading comprehension strategy involves creating a mental image of the text to support understanding?
Answer: Visualization
Visualization involves constructing mental images from text descriptions, engaging the reader's imagination to create a richer, more memorable representation of the content.
The Question-Answer Relationship strategy teaches students to categorize questions as:
Answer: Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me, On My Own
QAR classifies questions by where the answer is found: Right There for explicit text, Think and Search for text implicit, Author and Me for schema implicit, and On My Own for background knowledge only.
For a student with dyslexia who has strong oral comprehension but weak reading comprehension, the most likely explanation is:
Answer: The decoding bottleneck is consuming cognitive resources that would otherwise be available for comprehension
When slow, effortful decoding consumes working memory resources, little capacity remains for comprehension processes even when the student has strong oral language comprehension.
Monitoring comprehension refers to the ability to:
Answer: Recognize when understanding has broken down and apply fix-up strategies
Comprehension monitoring is the metacognitive ability to notice when understanding fails and to apply appropriate strategies such as re-reading or clarifying to restore meaning.
The K-W-L strategy primarily supports reading comprehension by:
Answer: Activating prior knowledge, setting a reading purpose, and synthesizing new learning
K-W-L activates the reader's background knowledge before reading, focuses attention on information gaps, and then prompts synthesis of new learning through a three-phase framework.