WorksheetsUnderstanding Text Comprehension Strategies
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What comes to mind when you hear the word “comprehension?”
Match the following
The teacher demonstrates how to apply the strategy, usually by “thinking aloud” while reading the text that the students are using.
Modeling
The teacher guides and assists students as they learn how and when to apply the strategy.
Guided Practice
The teacher explains to students why the strategy helps comprehension and when to apply the strategy.
Direct explanation
The teacher helps students practice the strategy until they can apply it independently.
Application
What is the main purpose of teaching comprehension strategies to students?
To make them read faster
To help them become purposeful, active readers
To improve their handwriting
To increase their vocabulary
Research shows that (a) (b) techniques are particularly (c) for comprehension strategy instruction.
What is comprehension monitoring?
A method to read aloud
A strategy to check understanding while reading
A way to memorise text
A technique to summarise stories
Which of the following is NOT a part of comprehension monitoring instruction?
Being aware of what is understood
Identifying what is not understood
Reading as fast as possible
Using strategies to fix understanding problems
Organize these options into the right categories
answers are found right in the text
require students to recall information from multiple places in the text
require students to use their background knowledge and relate it to the text they have read
based on the student’s own experiences and opinions
Why is it important for students to monitor their comprehension?
To finish reading quickly
To ensure they understand the text
To avoid reading difficult books
To improve their spelling
What can students do if they realise they do not understand a part of the text?
Skip the section
Use strategies to fix the problem
Ignore it and continue reading
Ask someone else to read it for them
At what stage of education can comprehension monitoring instruction be beneficial?
Only in high school
Only in university
Even in the early grades
Only in adult education
Which of the following is a benefit of teaching comprehension strategies?
Students become passive readers
Students rely on others for understanding
Students become in control of their reading comprehension
Students read less frequently
What is the first step in comprehension monitoring?
Reading the text aloud
Being aware of what is understood
Writing a summary
Memorising the text
How does comprehension strategy instruction affect students?
It makes them read more slowly
It helps them become active readers
It discourages them from reading
It confuses them
What should students do if they identify something they do not understand?
Skip it and move on
Use a strategy to fix the problem
Ask a friend to explain it
Write it down and ignore it
Which of the following is NOT a comprehension strategy?
Monitoring comprehension
Skipping difficult words
Summarising
Predicting
What is the role of a teacher in comprehension strategy instruction?
To read the text for the students
To provide strategies for understanding
To discourage questions
To give answers to all questions
What is a conscious plan in the context of reading comprehension?
A random guess
A set of steps to understand text
A way to avoid reading
A method to read silently
Why is it important for students to identify what they do not understand?
To skip those parts
To improve their comprehension
To ask someone else to read it
To avoid reading similar texts
Graphic organizers can: Help students (a) on text structure differences between fiction and non-fiction as they (b) Provide students with tools they can use to (c) and show (d) in a text Help students write well-organized summaries of a text
What is the ultimate goal of teaching comprehension strategies?
To make students read more books
To help students become independent readers
To ensure students read only easy texts
To make students write more
