Comprehension Review

Haikus & Diamantes are examples of...

Strategy: Students assume the role of a character & talk & answer Q's from the character's POV

A way to assess a student's literal comprehension by having students recall a story's details.

Descriptive words and phrases used to create a picture in readers' minds

Children link what they're reading to experiences in their own lives, personal connections.

An interruption, often taking readers back to the beginning of the story

What genre includes books written to provide facts or information about any given topic?

Assessment used to identify a student's reading miscues and determine their reading levels.

A systematic omission of words in a passage in order to assess a student's comprehension.

Author's ideas, the words the author uses to express ideas, & the organization of ideas.

Includes children's prior knowledge, reading strategies, & engagement in the reading experience

Cross-curricular word-study strategy in which children group words into categories

Strategy: Examining a concept using a grid to explore how sets of things are related.

What are the following: headings, index, table of contents, labels, diagrams, and captions?

Connections, Text importance, Inferencing, Evaluation, Monitoring, Predicting, Questioning

The goal of reading instruction. The reason why people read.

Teachers describe their thoughts as they read to model how skilled readers construct meaning.

Hints about events to come later in the story to build readers' expectations