Reading Comprehension Flashcards

Which text structure is used when an author describes an event followed by its outcomes or results?

Answer: Cause and effect

Cause-and-effect text structure organizes information around events (causes) and their outcomes (effects).

A student who re-reads a confusing sentence and asks himself 'does this make sense?' is using:

Answer: Comprehension monitoring strategies

Comprehension monitoring involves metacognitively tracking one's own understanding and applying fix-up strategies when meaning breaks down.

The ability to determine the main idea of a text is considered a higher-order comprehension skill because:

Answer: It requires selecting the most important idea and filtering out supporting details

Determining the main idea requires synthesizing information across a text and making a judgment about the most important overarching point.

A teacher regularly discusses author's purpose (to inform, persuade, or entertain) after reading. This instruction builds students' ability to:

Answer: Critically analyze text and identify the author's intent

Understanding author's purpose builds critical reading and analytical thinking skills by helping students evaluate why a text was written and how that shapes its content.

Text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections are comprehension strategies designed to:

Answer: Help students activate and link background knowledge to deepen comprehension

Making text connections links reading to prior knowledge and other experiences, supporting schema activation and deep comprehension.

When students summarize a reading passage, they are required to:

Answer: Identify key ideas and restate them concisely in their own words

Summarizing requires students to distinguish important from unimportant information and restate key ideas in their own words, demonstrating deep comprehension.