Comp 4: Reading Comprehension & Applications

Question 1

Semantic Mapping

Answer 1

A strategy that visually displays the relationship among words and helps to categorize them.

Connect vocabulary they learn in class with what they have previously seen, heard, or learned

Question 2

Steps To Semantic Mapping

Answer 2

1. Teacher put word or phrase representing story in middle of board; 3-5 subcategories as well
2. Students come up with related words for each category
3. Look through text to locate more words
4. When discuss, students can talk about personal connections

Question 3

Cloze Tests

Answer 3

Used to determine whether students will be able to understand a given text
-deleting every 5th word

Question 4

Convergent Questions

Answer 4

Questions that have a single correct answer.

Question 5

Divergent questions

Answer 5

More than one correct answer

Question 6

Story Retelling

Answer 6

A strategy used with young children to assess listening and reading comprehension. This can also assess sentence structure knowledge, vocabulary, speaking ability, and knowledge about the structure of stories.

Question 7

What is one of the key challenges that children in upper elementary school experience when moving from stage of “learning to read” to “reading to learn”?

Answer 7

Understanding the organizational patterns of the text to read more efficiently

Question 8

Silent Sustained Reading (SSR)

Answer 8

The primary goal of silent sustained reading (SSR) is to boost reading comprehension, but guiding the child to read silently and continuously for about 20 minutes a day also can improve reading fluency. This activity can also teach the child to read silently without moving his or her lips.