Section Introduction
Learning Objectives
- Identify the reader competencies that contribute to and affect reading comprehension.
- Explain the interrelatedness of the reader, the text, and the activity of reading.
- Identify and describe eight key comprehension strategies.
- Describe the role of scaffolding in explicit comprehension instruction.
Key Vocabulary
comprehension strategies
answering questions
asking questions
connecting to world knowledge
constructing mental images
monitoring comprehension
predicting
recognizing text structure
summarizing
contextualized instruction
cooperative learning
graphic organizer
informational text
literary text
metacognition
reader response
reading comprehension
scaffolding
Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
Chapter 14: Literary Text
Learning Objectives
- Describe the story structure elements of literary text.
- Explain how to apply each key comprehension strategy to literary text.
- Be familiar with effective instructional strategies, practices, and activities for teaching comprehension of literary text.
Key Vocabulary
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
comprehension strategies
dialogic reading
literary text
story map
story structure elements
characters
outcome
plot
problem
sequence of events
setting
theme
Transactional Strategies Instruction (TSI)
Chapter 15: Informational Text
Learning Objectives
- Describe five informational text structures.
- Explain how to apply each key comprehension strategy to informational text.
- Be familiar with effective instructional strategies, practices, and activities for teaching comprehension of informational text.
Key Vocabulary
comprehension strategies
considerate texts
Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)
Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI)
elaborative interrogation
informational text
informational text structures
cause-effect
compare-contrast
description
problem/solution
time order
K-W-L procedure
Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)
Questioning the Author (QtA)
schema