STR Reading Comprehension 2

Question 1

Which factor is MOST important for comprehension of informational texts, beyond decoding skill?

Accepted Answer

Background knowledge about the topic

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Handwriting fluency

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Oral reading rate

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Phoneme segmentation ability

Question 2

Reciprocal Teaching incorporates which four comprehension strategies?

Accepted Answer

Predict, question, clarify, summarize

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Connect, visualize, infer, evaluate

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Scan, skim, read, review

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Preview, read, recite, review

Question 3

A student understands individual sentences but struggles to understand the whole text. This is BEST described as a problem with:

Accepted Answer

Text-level comprehension (global coherence)

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Decoding

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Sentence-level fluency

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Phonological awareness

Question 4

Which text structure signals are associated with compare/contrast organization?

Accepted Answer

Similarly, however, on the other hand

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First, next, then, finally

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Because, therefore, as a result

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For example, such as, including

Question 5

Which comprehension skill involves identifying the most important ideas and restating them in one's own words?

Accepted Answer

Summarizing

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Inferencing

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Predicting

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Visualizing

Question 6

The Discourse Comprehension model suggests comprehension occurs at multiple levels. Which level deals with understanding words and sentences?

Accepted Answer

Surface code

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Situation model

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Text base

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Macrostructure