Lecture 7 - Assessing and Remediating Text Comprehension Problems Flashcards
Reading is a complex process that involves what six things?
Perception
Phonemic Awareness
Phonological Awareness
Orthographic Knowledge
Semantic Knowledge
Comprehension
What does literacy have the ability to do?
3
Decode and encode
Say words printed on paper
Say what the words mean
What is Multimodal Literacy the comprehension and production of?
What does it require people to do?
A wide variety of communication modalities (print, images, video, and digital contexts)
To represent their knowledge in those modalities
What are five essential skills for reading proficiency?
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Fluency (reading)
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Oral and written language have a ___________.
Reciprocal relationship
Reading and Writing are initially dependent on what two things?
Oral language
Extending oral language abilities
Younger children use oral language to ___________ and older children use reading to ___________.
Learn to read
Further learning
Conversational language is used to meet what needs?
3
Requesting/commanding
Accomplishing daily tasks
Sharing personal information
What is Academic Language used to do?
5
Analyze
Evaluate
Synthesize
Persuade
Explain
Does Academic Language use more vocabulary words that carry meaning than Conversational Language?
Yes
What does Academic Language use more of?
3
Technical terms
Abstract concepts
Events that are related (e.g., wars, civil rights)
What complex syntactic patterns are used more often in Academic Language?
(5)
Passive voice
Dependent clauses
Adverbial clauses (when, while, so, because, if-then, unless)
Adjectival clauses (The colonists, who felt they did not have representation, dumped tea into the Boston Harbor)
Noun clauses (Where the rebels were going was unknown)
What is Content Schema?
Mental model for facts presented in the text
Social structures of bees, ants
What is Text Schema?
2
Superordinate organization for the presentation of content information
Organization of descriptions, stories and explanations
What is Event Schemata?
Common routines (e.g., going to a party)
What do Comprehension and Production of discourse or texts require?
The ability to make a variety of inferences
What do we need understanding of in order to comprehend text?
(2)
Cause-effect between people, objects, and events
Intention
______ are needed to comprehend text.
Inferences
Poor comprehenders have difficulty making ______ to ___________.
Inferences
Answer questions
What is Anaphoric Referencing?
Pronoun or noun phrase that refers to previous text activity
“He asked her where she was going” – who is he, she?
What is Bridging/Relational Inference?
2
Deducing sequence and relationship of information across sentences
Integrating semantically/conceptually related information across sentences
(“Morgan heard her favorite TV show, sighed, and went back to work.” = TV not in the room.)
[Inferring the relationship of two objects or events that aren’t explicitly related. The connection between the two is essential for understanding the text]
What are Explanation-Based Inferences?
Inferring the antecedent or consequences of actions
MLK marched in Washington because he wanted the laws to change
What are Predictive Inferences?
Forecasts future events
Pigs will escape wolf. How people will react to storm
What is Goal Inferencing?
Infers the intentions of characters
Foxes want to eat ducks
What is Elaborative Inference?
Considers associations that cannot be explained causally
Houses will be less sturdy if built with straw.
What are six types of inferences?
Anaphoric Referencing
Bridging/Relational Inference
Explanation-Based Inferences
Goal Inferencing
Predictive Inferences
Elaborative Inference
What is contained in Cognitive Understanding?
4
Content schema
Text Schema
Event Schema
Inferences
What is contained in Narrative Content?
3
Landscape of action
Landscape of consciousness
Theory of Mind
What is Landscape of Action?
2
Temporally patterned sequences of actions that are reported in the 3rd person
Have minimal information about character’s psychological state
What is Landscape of Consciousness?
2
Story is told from perspectives of characters
Linguistic coding from Theory of Mind
What is Theory of Mind?
Being able to infer the full range of mental states that cause action
(beliefs, desires, intentions, imagination, emotions)
How do Narrative and Expository Texts differ?
4
Differ in purpose
Differ in schemata
Differ in text structure
Differ in types of processing
What are ways that Narrative and Expository Texts differ in purpose?
Entertain vs. information
What are ways that Narrative and Expository Texts differ in schemata?
Familiar vs. unfamiliar
What are ways that Narrative and Expository Texts differ in text structure?
Same basic vs. variable by genre
What are ways that Narrative and Expository Texts differ in types of processing?
Top-down vs. bottom-up
What does Story Macrostructure facilitate?
2
The ability to recognize gists or themes of passages.
Telling, retelling, or comprehending stories
What does Story Macrostructure help predict?
What will come next -> comprehend material
What limitations in Story Macrostructure do children with reading disabilities have?
(2)
Telling shorter, less complete, less organized stories
Remembering less detail
At what point in eduction are narratives the main focus?
Expository texts?
Early grades
Later grades
What are three types of Microstructures?
T-Units
C-Units
Clause
What are T units?
2
Main clause + all subordinate clauses
What are C-units?
3
An independent clause with its modifiers
One main clause with all subordinate clauses attached to it.
It cannot be further divided without its essential meaning disappearing
How do we determine C-Units?
Use Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT)