Ch. 8 Comprehension

Question 1

A type of procedure in which one supplies missing words…

Answer 1

Closed Procedure

Question 2

Part of text that is combined, deleted, and integrated to form a macrostructure.

Answer 2

Proposition

Question 3

a running summary of text…

Answer 3

Macrostructure

Question 4

Propositions that are toward the top of the text hierarchy….

Answer 4

General statement

Question 5

Propositions that are toward the lower part of the text hierarchy….

Answer 5

Details

Question 6

Another word for schemes…

Answer 6

Story Grammars

Question 7

This technique improves comprehension, provides a sense of text structure and develops language skills for average and struggling learners…

Answer 7

Retelling

Question 8

Which kind of telling is explaining everyday tasks…

Answer 8

Pretelling

Question 9

Which kind of telling involves bein aided first by illustrations and then by artifacts…

Answer 9

Guided retelling

Question 10

Which kind of telling involves acting o ut a scene or story they have read or heard….

Answer 10

Reenactment

Question 11

Which type of text includes science articles, how to features and historical text….?

Answer 11

Informational Text

Question 12

The way an author organizes his or her ideas….

Answer 12

Text Structure

Question 13

This type of text is based on this more straightforward style of thinking…

Answer 13

Narrative Text

Question 14

This type of text is based on the more complex logical–scientific style….

Answer 14

Informational Text

Question 15

What is the three-fold payoff for having a knowledge of structure?

Answer 15

1. Provides a clearer view of the relationship among ideas
2. Is its framework to aid in retention of information.
3. It focuses attention on individual ideas

Question 16

Which type of infomational text structure lists details about a subject with- out giving any cause–effect or time relationship among them?

Signal Words: For example, for instance

Answer 16

Enumeration- description

Question 17

Which type of infomational text structure uses specific time order?

Signal Words: First, second, third, then, after, next

Answer 17

Time sequence

Question 18

Which type of informational text structure tells how something works by proccess instead of steps?

Signal Words: similar to time sequence

Answer 18

Explanation-process

Question 19

Which type of informational text structure presents differences and or similarities

Signal Words: although, similar, different, but, on one hand

Answer 19

Comparison-Contrast

Question 20

Which type of informational text structure uses a statement of a dilemma followed by a possible solution or series of solutions?

Signal words are: problem and solution

Answer 20

Problem-Solution

Question 21

Which type of informational text structure is presented along with a single cause or series of causes?

Signal words: because, therefore, thus, cause, since

Answer 21

Cause-Effect

Question 22

Which 2 types of informational text structures are better for comprehension and retention than enumeration?

Answer 22

1. Cause-Effect

2. Comparison-Contrast

Question 23

What are the two types of reading connections students need to make when reading?

Answer 23

1. Internal (How ideas in the text are related to each other)
2. External (how text ideas are related to the reader’s background

Question 24

What is an arrangement of skills from least demanding to those that require the highest meental powers known as?

Answer 24

Taxonomy.

Question 25

What are the four parts of Blooms Taxonomy?

Answer 25

1. Remember 2. Understand 3. Apply 4. Analyze

Question 26

Which part of Blooms Taxonomy involves students revising facts, stating characters, dates and places as well as putting info in thier own words. ?

Answer 26

The Remembering Part

Question 27

Which part of Blooms Taxonomy involves inferring, identifying/constructing ideas, classifying, comparing, explaining, and summarizing?

Answer 27

The Understanding Part

Question 28

Which part of Blooms Taxonomy involves carrying out or implementing a procedure (explain, demonstrate, or solve problems).

Answer 28

The Apply Part