Reading Comprehension

Which one is not a sign of comprehension difficulty?

• Confusion about the meaning of words and sentences.

• Lack of concentration.

• Not showing understanding of teacher instruction.

• Inability to connect ideas in a passage.

Which is a way to monitor comprehension?

• Be aware of what they don't understand.

• Identify what they do not understand.

• Use your own strategy to resolve problems in comprehension.

• Examine the reading pace of the student.

Metacognition is ...

• Thinking about predicting.

• Thinking about understanding.

• Thinking about fluency.

• Thinking about thinking.

What do graphic and semantic organizers not do?

• Help students comprehend text.

• Help students write well-organized summaries of a text.

• Provide students with tools that they can use to examine and show relationships in text.

• Help students text structure.

Answering questions can ...

• Help students with fluency.

• Give students a purpose.

• Encourage students to read more.

• Focus students' attention on what they want to learn.

Which categories of content are part of recognizing story structure?

• Characters

• Resolution

• Problem

• Mood

When summarizing, students should...

• Connect the main or central ideas.

• Eliminate necessary information.

• Remember what they read.

• Identify or generate main ideas.

Which is not an effective comprehension strategy instruction?

• Reteaching

• Direct Explanation

• Modeling

• Application

When generating questions, students...

• Learn to memorize the different segments of text.

• Learn to collaborate with other students to improve their comprehension.

• Learn to ask themselves questions that require them to combine information from different segments of text.

• Learn to answer questions based on their prior knowledge.

Comprehension difficulties can be revived through a variety of strategies.

• True

• False