Competency 005

Question 1

Reciprocal Teaching

Answer 1

Teacher shows students how to use comprehension strategies.
Students apply strategies.
Both teachers and students are involved.

Question 2

Comprehension Strategies

Answer 2

Ask questions to ensure they understand.
Clarify meaning of challenging words and ideas.
Make summary of what they read.
Make predictions of what might happen next.

Question 3

KWL Charts

Answer 3

A chart with 3 columns titled “What I Know,” “What I Want to Learn,” and “What I Learned.”

Question 4

Asking the Author

Answer 4

Teacher focuses on an excerpt or portion of a text, and students ask the author several question. Class has discussion.

Question 5

I Chart

Answer 5

Students fill out a chart with information and questions about different topics, list sources for info and summarize the info.

Question 6

Ways to help students improve their reading comprehension.

Answer 6

Metacognitive strategies and modeling, SQ3R/SQ4R, and guided reading. Wide reading, explicit vocabulary instruction, teaching students about word analysis and context clues, and graphic organizers.

Question 7

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Answer 7

Classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning.

Question 8

Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

Answer 8

Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating

Question 9

Remembering Level of Bloom’s

Answer 9

Can the student recall or remember the information?

Define, Duplicate, List, Memorize, Recall, Repeat, Reproduce State

Question 10

Understanding Level of Bloom’s

Answer 10

Can the student explain ideas or concepts?

Classify, Describe, Discuss, Explain, Identify, Locate, Recognize, Report, Select, Translate, Paraphrase.

Question 11

Applying Level of Bloom’s

Answer 11

Can the student use the information in a new way?

Choose, Demonstrate, Dramatize, Employ, Illustrate, Interpret, Operate, Schedule, Sketch, Solve, Use, Write.

Question 12

Evaluating Level of Bloom’s

Answer 12

Can the student justify a stand or decision?

Appraise, Argue, Defend, Judge, Select, Support, Value, Evaluate.

Question 13

Creating Level of Bloom’s

Answer 13

Can the student create new product or point of view?

Assemble, Construct, Create, Design, Develop, Formulate, Write.

Question 14

Purposes for Reading

Answer 14

Reading for pleasure
Reading to learn something
Reading to know how to do something
Reading to research something

Question 15

Concrete Operational Stage

Answer 15

Children are not yet able to fully grasp abstract ideas.

Question 16

Myth

Answer 16

A traditional or legendary story, generally invented or made up, and often involving a hero or significant event.

Question 17

Poetry

Answer 17

Literary works that are in verse or metrical form.

Question 18

Non-Fiction

Answer 18

A work based on real events or facts, gives information, written by authors that are trustworthy.

Question 19

Historical Fiction

Answer 19

The setting is based on historical events and sometimes even historical figures, but it is not a historical account.

Question 20

Fiction

Answer 20

A work based on made up characters and settings.

Question 21

Fable

Answer 21

A short story or tale that teaches a moral lesson.

Question 22

Authors’ Purposes For Writing

Answer 22

Write to inform, entertain, or persuade.

Question 23

Hyperbole

Answer 23

Exaggerations to create emphasis or effect. “The bag weighed a ton.”

Question 24

Metaphor

Answer 24

Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression.”

Question 25

Simile

Answer 25

Figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

Question 26

Personification

Answer 26

Attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 27

Cloze Technique

Answer 27

Technique in which words are deleted from a passage according to a word-count formula or various other criteria. The passage is presented to students, who insert words as they read to complete and construct meaning from the text.