RED 315 Chapter 8 Vocabulary

is a careful analytical reading and rereading of a text in order to determine what the text says and how it says it.

• Rehearsing

• Close reading

• Dual Coding

• Coherence

Is the relating of elements into a consistent, logical whole. Readers establish relationships among elements in a text and between elements in a text and their background knowledge.

• Imaging

• Goal

• Purpose

• Coherence

Is the concept that text can be processed verbally and nonverbally. Nonverbal coding focuses on imaging.

• Dual coding

• Embodied cognition

• ReQuest

• Textbase

Refers to additional processing of text by a reader, which may result in improved comprehension and recall. Elaboration involves building connections between one’s background knowledge and the text or integrating new information through manipulating or transforming it.

• Purpose

• Embodied Comprehension

• Lookback

• Elaboration

Is the theory that our cognitive processes have their foundation in bodily and neural processes of perception, action, and emotion.

• Embodied cognition

• Repairing

• Local coherence

• Imaging

Is the process of fostering comprehension by having students perform the actions specified by the text.

• Strategy

• Schema

• Embodied comprehension

• Monitoring

Is knowledge that is isolated from relevant background knowledge. The reader has not related the new knowledge to what he or she knows.

• Regulating

• Prior knowledge

• Encapsulated knowledge

• Situation model

Refers to the outcome the reader is seeking: to gain information, to prepare for a test, to learn how to put a toy together, to relax, and so on.

• Goal

• Schema-based inferences

• Metacognition

• Question generation

Refers to creating sensory representations of items in text.

• Lookback

• Text-dependent questions

• Imaging

• Goal

Is the establishment of connections among sentences and paragraphs on an ongoing fashion so that a sentence or paragraph currently being processed is related to sentences or paragraphs previously processed.

• Strategy

• Situation model

• ReQuest

• Local coherence