Deck 8: Comprehension: Text Structures and Teaching Procedures

Question 1

Most children first learn how to develop a schema for stories through

A) listening to stories.
B) discussing the major elements of stories.
C) reading stories.
D) writing stories.

Answer 1

listening to stories.

Question 2

Which of the following signal words or phrases would most likely indicate a comparison-contrast text structure?

A) for example; for instance
B) but; however
C) since; because
D) next; finally

Answer 2

but; however

Question 3

Which of the following questions would be best at developing a deeper conceptual understanding of the topic of rivers?

A) ?Where does the Nile River start and end??
B) ?What is the largest river in the United States??
C) ?How is a river similar to but different from a lake??
D) ?How are rivers formed??

Answer 3

?How is a river similar to but different from a lake??

Question 4

According to the text?s taxonomy of types of questions, which of the following levels requires making connections between the text and prior knowledge?

A) organizing
B) elaborating
C) monitoring
D) comprehending

Question 5

Which questions are best for helping students activate schema and read with a purpose in mind?

A) questions asked before a selection is read
B) questions asked at key stopping points during the reading of a selection
C) questions asked after each page has been read
D) questions asked after a selection has been read

Question 6

Which of the following is most likely to result in longer and more elaborative responses, higher-level thought processes, and fewer no-responses and I-don?t-knows?

A) wait time
B) varied questions
C) taxonomy of questions
D) assisted questions

Question 7

Which questioning procedure involves moving carefully from level to level to prompt for higher-level thinking processes?

A) accountable talk
B) retelling
C) responsive elaboration
D) FELS

Question 8

Responsive elaboration mainly attempts to

A) expand on students? vocabularies.
B) improve students? recall skills.
C) redirect students? reasoning.
D) expand on students? organization skills.

Question 9

Which technique is especially helpful for students who have little background to bring to a selection?

A) responsive elaboration
B) KWL
C) DR-TA
D) guided reading lesson

Question 10

The major differences between a guided reading lesson and a directed reading-thinking activity (DR-TA) is in

A) the time spent in reading.
B) the type and length of selection read.
C) the person deciding on the reading purpose.
D) the balance of oral and silent reading.

Question 11

Which of the following techniques is best at getting students to use context and read for meaning on a sentence-by-sentence basis?

A) directed reading-thinking activity (DR-TA)
B) KWL
C) guided reading
D) cloze

Question 12

What is the main reason the Internet demands critical thinking skills?

A) It provides access to great amounts of information from all over the world.
B) It offers massive amounts of information, but much of it is not checked by anyone.
C) It uses sophisticated graphics, elaborate designs, and complex layouts.
D) It demands sophisticated skills in order to search for information and navigate through databases.

Question 13

What is retelling? What are the levels of developmental retelling and what is the significance of each level?

Question 14

What is text structure and what role does it play in comprehension?

Question 15

What are the six types of expository text structure and which is/are more likely to facilitate comprehension and retention? What are some ways to teach students about these structures?

Question 16

What are some effective questioning techniques?

Question 17

What is guided reading? What are the steps in a guided reading lesson?

Question 18

Consider the steps needed to conduct a guided reading lesson. Choose one step and discuss how you would adapt it for teaching English Language Learners (ELLs).

Question 19

How is the directed reading-thinking activity (DR-TA) both alike and different from the guided reading lesson?

Question 20

What is cloze and what might be its role in building comprehension? What are some variations of this method?

Question 21

What is critical reading, and how should it be stressed when reading Internet material?

Question 22

What are the main skills involved in critical reading?