Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is the active process of obtaining meaning from?

• spoken words

• written text

• pictures

• all of the above

Which one of these is a fix-up strategy?

• sounding out unknown word

• looking up words or names in the dictionary, encyclopedia, glossary, Google, Wikipedia

• reflecting on what the author is trying to say in the passage

• all of the above

Which of the following best describes strategy instruction?

• interventions that modify content for the student to make it more accessible

• providing students with tools to decode text themselves

• teaching coping mechanisms to help with problematic behavior

• a subset of pre-service teaching education in college

As students move from elementary to middle school, they are expected to...

• read to learn

• learn to read

"Who, what, when, where, and why" are considered to be question words.

• true

• false

What is critical word factor?

• defined text difficulty in terms of number of words at the given curriculum level

• critically examining the words and pulling out the prefix and suffix is to help with comprehension

• organizational structure of a word

• how to determine tax cohesion

Findings have indicated that direct instruction plus self monitoring strategies are more effective than direct instruction only.

• true

• false

According to Morgan et al (2013), the three main deficits readers struggle in are (check all that apply):

• vocabulary

• word identification

• comprehension

• compare/contrast

• sequencing

The two broadest organizational categories of genre is narrative text (fictional) and expository text (nonfiction).

• true

• false

Which strategy has more of an impact of comprehension than an instructional modification?

• main idea generalization

• summarization

• identifying the underlying structure of the text

• all of the above