Question 1

Comprehension is a complex, holistic process. Explain what skills a reader needs in order to comprehend a text.

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Question 2

Teachers often talk about readers being able to make inferences. Explain what inferential skills are and how you will assess a reader's inferential skills. Then discuss four strategies you will teach readers so their inferential skills increase.

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Question 3

Proficient readers are able to visualize. Explain how you will assess readers' ability to visualize and how you will help them increase their skill to visualize as they read stories.

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Question 4

Explain how readers' literary background knowledge, their world knowledge, and their life experiences influence their ability to comprehend narrative text. Explain how you will help struggling readers improve in these three areas.

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Question 5

Name and explain the various types of story maps. Take a book from the table at the front of the class. Read the story and create a story map that best fits the story. [NOTE TO INSTRUCTOR: Please be sure to provide books that your students can choose from.]

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Question 6

Compare and contrast the skills of a reader who is proficient in comprehension with a reader who has poor comprehension skills.

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Question 7

Laticia reads the words in a story fluently; however, after she completes her reading, she cannot summarize the story. Explain what instruments you will use to assess Laticia's inability to comprehend the story, what strategies you will teach her, and some activities that you will have her do independently.

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Question 8

Explain when and how you will teach comprehension strategies to a small group and to an individual.

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Question 9

Explain the following strategies: experience-text-relationships, reciprocal questioning technique, the directed reading-thinking activity, and the directed listening-thinking activity.

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Question 10

Explain how and what technology(ies) you will use to help with readers' narrative comprehension skills.

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Quiz 9: Comprehension of Narrative Text