Reading and Literacy Instruction Flashcards
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Which comprehension strategy involves students forming mental pictures of events and characters while reading?
Answer: Visualizing scenes and details from the text
Visualization is a comprehension strategy where readers create mental images from descriptive text, which enhances engagement and memory for the material.
What is the instructional purpose of a K-W-L chart in a reading lesson?
Answer: To activate prior knowledge, set purposes, and reflect on learning
A K-W-L chart (Know, Want to Know, Learned) activates prior knowledge before reading, establishes reading purposes, and helps students consolidate new learning afterward.
When a student draws a conclusion that is not explicitly stated in the text but is supported by textual clues and prior knowledge, the student is:
Answer: Making an inference from the text
Inferencing requires combining implicit textual clues with prior knowledge to arrive at conclusions the author implied but did not directly state.
Which text structure would an author use to explain why the Great Plains experiences frequent tornadoes?
Answer: Cause and effect
Cause and effect text structure explains why events occur by linking causes (geographic and meteorological conditions) to their resulting effects (tornado frequency).
Reciprocal teaching is a comprehension strategy that incorporates which four specific strategies?
Answer: Predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing
Reciprocal teaching (Palincsar & Brown, 1984) uses four strategies—predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing—in structured student-led dialogue.
A student says, 'This story reminds me of when my family moved to a new town.' This is an example of which type of reading connection?
Answer: Text-to-self connection
A text-to-self connection occurs when a reader links content from the text to their own personal experiences or memories.
Which of the following best describes 'author's purpose' as a reading comprehension skill?
Answer: Determining why the author wrote the text (to inform, persuade, or entertain)
Understanding author's purpose requires readers to identify the writer's intent—whether to persuade, inform, entertain, or explain—which affects how the text should be interpreted.