Reading Comprehension Flashcards

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

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.

Reciprocal Teaching incorporates which four comprehension strategies?

Answer: Predict, question, clarify, summarize

Reciprocal Teaching uses predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing — strategies students apply in rotating teacher roles.

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

Answer: Text-level comprehension (global coherence)

Difficulty integrating sentences into a coherent whole reflects a problem with global coherence or text-level comprehension.

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

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.

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

Answer: Summarizing

Summarizing requires selecting the most important information and paraphrasing it concisely in the reader's own words.

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

Answer: Surface code

The surface code level involves understanding the exact words and sentence structures as written in the text.