FORT Reading Comprehension Skills Prep Response

Vocabulary

Receptive & Expressive vocabulary

Receptive vocabulary

Understanding words that are heard or read.

Expressive vocabulary

Words used to express thoughts when writing or speaking.

Contextual Analysis

A method of examining a "text" (which could be anything from a piece of writing to a photograph or even a behavior) by considering its surrounding circumstances, including its historical, social, cultural, and situational context.

• Tier 1 conversational words

• Tier 2 academic words

• Tier 3 content-specific words

Tiered vocabulary includes….

Literal comprehension skills

understanding what the text says:

• Main idea (when stated in the text)

• Facts

• Sequence of events

• Characters' names

Inferential comprehension skills

determining what the text means

• Generalizations

• Cause & effect relationships

• Predictions

• Identifying an unstated main idea

Evaluative comprehension skills

ability to analyze, synthesize, and assess the text content

• Thinking critically

• Connecting ideas across texts

• Making judgements

• Applying to real-world situations

Comprehension strategies

making connections, asking questions, visualizing, inferring, determining importance, summarizing'

• Somebody wanted but so then strategy (history) or fiction

• rereading

• modeling

• timeline

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• scaffolding

• Small group explicit instruction

• Exemplars

• Main idea and key detaqils graphic organizer

• Story map (fiction)

• Concept map (semantic map)

• Interactive read alouds

• rereading

• KWL Chart (background knowledge)

• Text features

Text analysis

Techniques that help with comprehension

• Evaluating word choice

• Identifying nonfiction text structures and author choice

Factors that may affect comprehension

• Background knowledge

• Vocabulary knowledge and language skills

• Reading fluency

Student Strength

The teacher begins by asking the student questions that require literal and inferential comprehension skills and the student answers the questions correctly. For instance:

• What is this passage about?

• Can you tell me what you learned about elephants from the passage?

• Was there anything else the author wrote about elephants?

• Why would elephants need to stay cool?

 

Student Need

When the teacher asks the student questions requiring contextual analysis to determine the meaning of unknown words, the student answers the questions incorrectly. 

• That word is matriarch. Based on the text, what do you think it means?

• Are there any words around matriarch that can help you infer what it means?

Read the nonfiction passage and student/teacher dialogue and decide the student’s strength and need:

Student Strength

The teacher begins by asking the student questions that require literal comprehension skills and the student answers the questions correctly. For instance:

• Where did this story take place?

• Who were the main characters of this story?

 

Student Need

When the teacher asks the student questions requiring inferential comprehension skills, the student answers the questions incorrectly. 

• Why was Benny worried?

• What part of the text makes you say that?

Read the fiction passage and the student/teacher dialogue and decide the students strength and need: