Week 9 (miscue analysis for assessing reading)

Question 1

What is comprehension?

Answer 1

Comprehension is the act of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning from text. It involves decoding, connecting to the meaning and thinking deeply.

Question 2

What are the 3 levels of complexity of comprehension?

Answer 2

1- literal meaning
2- interpretive meaning (reading between the lines)
3- inferential meaning (reading beyond the lines).

Question 3

What are 4 indicators of comprehension?

Answer 3

Accuracy
Fluency
Orchestration
Phrasing

Question 4

What is a miscue analysis? What is a miscue?

Answer 4

A miscue analysis is an assessment of reading which collects information about reading ability as well as comprehension.
A miscue is an unexpected response when reading aloud and is assessed based on quality, not quantity (is meaning still maintained?).

Question 5

What are the 3 causes of a miscue?

Answer 5

• Graphophonic: the relationship between the letter and sound.
• Semantic: the sense made, does the sentence make sense?
• Syntactic: structural components of the sentence or phrase.

Question 6

What are the 8 types of miscues?

Answer 6

• correction
• hesitation
• insertion
• no response
• omission
• repetition
• reversal
• substitution