Comprehension Flashcards
literal comprehension
understand facts from the text
- main idea
- details from reading
- pov
inferential comprehension
infer about reading without using what the text explicitly states
- make predictions
- draw conclusions
- cause and effect
- determine moral, lesson, theme
evaluative comprehension
evaluate/analyze text by asking ?’s, consider authors intentions in writing text
- explain pov
- author’s word choice
- character development
morphemic analysis
using morphemes to determine meaning of unknown words
- affixes (prefixes, suffixes)
- root (bound: love - loveable loving, unbound: geo- geology, geometry)
contextual analysis
using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words
- definition
- example
- synonym
- antonym
- inference
Denotative
Dictionary
literal meaning
CONotative
CONtext
meaning as it is used in the text
Tier 1: basic vocabulary
common words that students experience in their environment
walk, break, shoe, this
Tier 2: High-Frequency Academic Vocabulary
words that students encounter in school
describe, analyze, determine, identify
Tier 3: Low-Frequency Domain-Specific Vocabulary
words specific to a concept and subject
photosynthesis, square root, scarcity
Matthew Effect
early strong reader will grow to be good readers
early struggling readers will continue to struggle reading
utility
how frequently a word is used
word consciousness
intriguing students in new words and have these new words replace familiar words
defines words, but also uses them in context like in a sentence
fairy tale
magical creatures and imaginary lands
fantasy
supernatural events/characters
folk tale
stories passed on from generation to generation, can teach a moral lesson
**use them to be culturally responsive since they are universal **
fables
teach moral lesson, personified characters
myth
stories from the past that explain civilizations
qualitative measures
can ONLY be measured by the READER
- meaning
- structure
- language
quantitative measures
Reader CANT measure, MEASURED BY COMPUTER SOFTWARE
- word/sentence length
- word difficulty
Reader and task considerations
considered by TEACHER
reader: motivation, knowledge, experiences
considerations: complexity of the assignment and reading questions
