STR Reading Comprehension 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which factor is MOST important for comprehension of informational texts, beyond decoding skill?
- Handwriting fluency
- Background knowledge about the topic (Correct answer)
- Oral reading rate
- Phoneme segmentation ability
Correct answer: Background knowledge about the topic
Background knowledge is a powerful predictor of informational text comprehension because readers use it to interpret and connect new information.
Question 2: Reciprocal Teaching incorporates which four comprehension strategies?
- Predict, question, clarify, summarize (Correct answer)
- Connect, visualize, infer, evaluate
- Scan, skim, read, review
- Preview, read, recite, review
Correct answer: Predict, question, clarify, summarize
Reciprocal Teaching uses predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing — strategies students apply in rotating teacher roles.
Question 3: A student understands individual sentences but struggles to understand the whole text. This is BEST described as a problem with:
- Decoding
- Sentence-level fluency
- Text-level comprehension (global coherence) (Correct answer)
- Phonological awareness
Correct answer: Text-level comprehension (global coherence)
Difficulty integrating sentences into a coherent whole reflects a problem with global coherence or text-level comprehension.
Question 4: Which text structure signals are associated with compare/contrast organization?
- First, next, then, finally
- Because, therefore, as a result
- Similarly, however, on the other hand (Correct answer)
- For example, such as, including
Correct answer: Similarly, however, on the other hand
Compare/contrast texts use signal words like similarly, however, and on the other hand to show likenesses and differences.
Question 5: Which comprehension skill involves identifying the most important ideas and restating them in one's own words?
- Inferencing
- Summarizing (Correct answer)
- Predicting
- Visualizing
Correct answer: Summarizing
Summarizing requires selecting the most important information and paraphrasing it concisely in the reader's own words.
Question 6: The Discourse Comprehension model suggests comprehension occurs at multiple levels. Which level deals with understanding words and sentences?
- Situation model
- Text base
- Surface code (Correct answer)
- Macrostructure
Correct answer: Surface code
The surface code level involves understanding the exact words and sentence structures as written in the text.
STR Reading Comprehension 2
Which factor is MOST important for comprehension of informational texts, beyond decoding skill?