HPE Ch. 6 - Strategies

When teaching students to read, the concept of comprehension is best defined by which of the following?

• Constructing meaning from the text

• Being able to decode new vocabulary

• Understanding what was read

• Using context clues and resources to figure out the definition of words

Which of the following concepts describes the sociocultural, linguistic, academic, and cognitive knowledge brought to the reading process that can be used to understand what is being read? By relating this knowledge to the reading content, CLD students can enhance their reading comprehension.

• Schematic connections

• Relevant materials Metacognitive knowledge Comprehensible input

• Metacognitive knowledge

• Comprehensible input

The highest level of schematic connections for CLD students in which they are encouraged to apply higher-order thinking skills and cognitively complex connections is…

• Text-to-world connections

• Text-to-text connections

• Text-to-self connections

• Text-to-media connections

The specific strategies for teaching metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective reading comprehension strategies help create more successful language learners, as demonstrated in their ability to: (Select all that apply)

• Rely on background knowledge (inferences, predictions, elaborations)

• Focus more on metacognitive strategies

• Focus more on meaning than decoding

• Use more efficient memorization techniques

Guided practice in effective reading through the modeling of think-alouds provides students with an opportunity to watch a teacher verbalize thoughts aloud while reading a selection orally. This is an example of which of the following strategies?

• Metacognitive

• Cognitive

• Social/Affective

• Linguistic

Having the names of objects in the students’ native languages and posting them next to the English names of the artifact is a strategy in which CLD students are able to manipulate the material being read. What kind of strategy is this?

• Cognitive

• Metacognitive

• Social/Affective

• Inferencing

The strategy that engages CLD students in interactions with other people to enhance comprehension via questioning for clarification or cooperative learning is which of the following?

• Social/Affective

• Cognitive

• Metacognitive

• Critical thinking

When constructing meaning from a text, to fully comprehend the text, CLD students must…

• Relate prior knowledge to text content

• Translate text to their first language in order to fully understand it

• Work with other students to share and verify information related to the text

• Learn any unfamiliar names and terms before proceeding

Factors that influence CLD students’ reading comprehension include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

• Sociocultural knowledge

• Cognitive knowledge

• Linguistic knowledge

• Academic knowledge

Once comprehension is achieved, teachers can rest assured that the strategies used with one CLD student will work for other students.

• True

• False

• It depends on the teacher

• It depends on the students