Reading Comprehension

Decoding X ____ _____ = Reading Comprehension

• Word Recognition

• Language Comprehension

• Phonological Awareness

• Decoding and Spelling

Hollis Scarborough's Reading Rope is a metaphor for

• Fluency

• Skilled Reading

• Word Recognition

• Comprehension

Reading Comprehension can be defined as

• Extracting and contracting meaning from text

• Summarizing the text

• Predicting outcomes

• Identifying main idea and details

Comprehension of written language involves processing language at the following levels

• Gaining access to word meaning

• Making sense of sentence structures

• Integrating meaning within and between sentences

• Connecting to background information

• All of the above

An individual's lexicon is his or her mental

The purpose of narrative text is to

• infer meaning

• inform or instruct

• tell a story

• describe in detail

The purpose of expository text is to

• offer opinion

• tell a story

• inform or instruct

• infer meaning

Background knowledge is

• not vital for reading comprehension

• Knowledge, skills, or abilities students bring to the learning process

• based on early, varied personal, academic, and cultural encounters

• specific to the situations, problems, and concepts present in targeted text used in the academic setting

______ _______ is necessary to build a coherent representation and a mental model of the text.

• Inference generation

• Prior Knowledge

• Cause and effect

• Background knowledge

______ is the process used to plan, monitor, and assess one’s understanding and performance.

• Language Comprehension

• Reading Comprehension

• Metacognition

• Thinking