Praxis II 0041 Flashcards
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Activating Prior Knowledge
Readers pay more attention when they relate. They naturally bring their prior knowledge and experience. Comprehend better when making connections between text, their lives, and larger world.
Romantic Period
1790-1830: Writers write about nature, imagination, and individuality. Blake, Keats, Shelley, Goeth. American Transcendentalist: Emmerson and Thoreau.
Victorian Period & 19th Century
1832-1901: Sentimental novels. Elizabeth Browning, A.L. Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Dickens, and Bronte Sisters. Naturalist: Stephen Crane
Predicting or Asking Questions
Questioning is the strategy that keeps readers engaged. When readers ask questions, even before they read, they clarify understanding and forge ahead to make meaning asking questions is at the heart of thoughtful reading.
Age of Johnson
1750-1790: Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Edward Gibbon. American Colonial Period (Ben franklin, jefferson, paine)
Visualizing
Active readers create visual images based on the words they read in the text. These created pictures enhance their understanding.
Drawing Inferences
Inferring occurs when the readers take what they know, garner clues from the text, and think ahead to make a judgment, discern a theme, or speculate about what is to come.
Repairing Understanding
If confusion disrupts meaning, readers need to stop and clarify their understanding. Readers may use a variety of strategies to “fix up” comprehension when meaning goes awry.
Confirming
As students read and after they read, they can confirm the predictions they originally made. There is no wrong answer. Determining whether a prediction is correct is a goal.
Using Parts of a Book
Students should use book parts such as charts, diagrams, indexes, and TOC to improve their understanding of a reading.
Reflecting
An important strategy is for students to think about or reflect on what they read.
Cueing Systems
Cueing systems help increase comprehension: 1. Semantics, 2. Syntax, 3. Activating prior knowledge
Semantics
Cueing system, is same as context. As students read they can guess at words they do not know by considering the rest of the passage.
Syntax
Cueing system: the english language restricts the order of words in a meaningful sentence. if readers consdier both syntax and semantics they can make better educated guesses about unknown words.
Activating Prior knowledge
Cueing System: Good readers will try to fit the reading with what they already know before, during, and after they read.
Metacognition
Vital component of reading that calls for critical thinking or “thinking about thinking”
Miscue Analysis
Process of assessing the strategies that students use in their reading. When students read inaccurately
Comprehension
Skills that include the ability to identify supporting details and facts, the main idea or essential message, the author’s purpose, fact and oppinion, POV, inference, the conclusion, and other information.
Traditional Literature
Includes ancient stories, and it has a set form. Previously orally passed down, then recorded by Grimm or consider Greek tales as well
Modern Literature
More recent literature occasionally overlaps with traditional literature.
Parable
A story that is realistic and has a moral. It is didactic (teaches a lesson). Examples include biblical tales like the prodigal son and the good samaritan.
Fable
Is a non realistic story with a moral.Often has animals as main characters. Aesop, a greek slave (600BCE) is often associated with the fable. Ex. include “the fox & the Crane” it’s a type of traditional lit
Fairy Tales
Do not necessarily include fairies. Key characteristic is magic. Follows a certain pattern and presents an “ideal” to reader. Cinderella, Snowhite, Rapunzel convey message about the “proper” woman. Type of traditional lit.
Magic Three
Frequent feature of fairy tale (trinity)