Reading Comprehension Flashcards
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Which instructional strategy best supports students who struggle to monitor their own understanding while reading?
Answer: Think-alouds and metacognitive self-questioning
Think-alouds and self-questioning teach students to actively monitor comprehension and notice when meaning breaks down.
A student can answer literal questions but fails when asked 'Why did the character feel that way?' This gap reflects difficulty with which comprehension skill?
Answer: Perspective-taking and inferencing about mental states
Questions about character feelings require theory of mind and inferencing skills that go beyond literal text recall.
Which evidence-based intervention framework emphasizes explicit instruction in reading comprehension strategies such as predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing?
Answer: Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching (Palincsar & Brown, 1984) teaches four specific comprehension strategies through dialogue between teacher and students.
When assessing reading comprehension, a CALT notes that a student performs significantly better on oral comprehension than on reading comprehension. This pattern most directly points to a deficit in:
Answer: Decoding and word recognition
Better oral than reading comprehension indicates that language processing is intact and the bottleneck is at the word-reading (decoding) level.
Which text feature primarily helps readers understand the organizational structure and hierarchy of information in expository text?
Answer: Headings and subheadings
Headings and subheadings signal how ideas are organized and allow readers to anticipate and chunk informational content.
A CALT teaches a student to identify the 'somebody-wanted-but-so-then' structure. Which type of text does this strategy target?
Answer: Narrative text
The somebody-wanted-but-so-then framework maps onto narrative story grammar (character, goal, conflict, resolution, outcome).
Background knowledge contributes to reading comprehension primarily by:
Answer: Providing schema that aids inference generation and fill gaps in text
Prior knowledge creates schemata that help readers make inferences, connect ideas, and fill in information the text leaves implicit.