According to evidence-based best practices, which of the following instructional approaches is most effective in teaching comprehension skills and strategies?
explicit instruction
Strategies that are effective for helping EL students with comprehension include (3)
building background, monitor comprehension, graphic organizers
story map is a
literary graphic organizer
which level of comprehensio nis Fact based, Directly from the text, Found RIGHT THERE in the text
literal
3 literary elements
characters, setting, events, sequence, plot
which type of text structure gives the order of events or steps in a process?
sequence
A story about people, animals, or events that is made up by an author.
literary
2 more terms for literary text
fiction narrative
What is a graphic organizer is used for comparing and contrasting?
re-read, look up terms, look for headers, charts, images, find out more information.
Student generated questions can result in (2 things)
better student engagement, better comprehension
2 more terms for informational text
nonfiction expository
Which reading level is the level that included the "you" questions? This is the critical ad most complex level.
evaluative
illustrate concepts and relationships between concepts using diagrams
graphic organizers
Readers activate their schema
to access the background knowledge and make connections to what they know
what genre has narraton that demonstrates a useful truth, especially in which animals speak as humans
fable
is a process in which students determine whether they understand what they are reading.
monitoring comprehension
which level is where Readers logically guess or draw conclusions based on the information and implied concepts.
inferential
realistic fiction is
a made up story that could happen in real life
eavesdropping on someone's thinking." With this strategy, teachers verbalize aloud while reading a selection orally. Their verbalizations include describing things they're doing as they read to monitor their comprehension.
think aloud
telling the most important parts of a text, in your own words, in a much shorter way.
summarizing
nonfiction writing, written with the intention of informing the reader about a specific topic.
informational text
Which type of text structure tells why something happens. It provides the reason.
cause and effect
A teacher can help EL sudents comprehend text better by (2 things)
building background, preteaching vocabulary,
what genre is a fictional story that takes place in a particulary time period in the past
historical fiction
_________or thinking about one’s thinking, is the foundation for other reading comprehension strategies. Proficient readers continually monitor their own thoughts, controlling their experience with the text and enhancing their understanding
metacognition
Previewing a nonfiction texts helps readers to
recall prior knowledge, set a purpose for reading, look for text features to gather information
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