Comprehension

1. Struggling readers making inferences and finding text evidence to analyze.

2. Lack of background information, socialcultural differences, and vocabulary deficits all impact negatively

3. understanding material read

4. Need to be able to read fluently & accurately in order to comprehend

5. lack of background knowledge to connect to ttext

6. Beyond, About, and within the text understanding

7. Challenge I face with reading comprehension is engaging the students in a discussion about the text.

8. Vocabulary knowledge plays a role in comprehension

9. comprehension in the ability to understand written texts.

10. the goal of reading is a deep level of comprehension=understanding text

11. annotating is a great way to increase comprehension

12. Skills and strategies needed for effective comprehension, background knowledge, vocabulary, and social communication.

13. Using visualization/mental images

14. the ability to understand something, making meaning of text

15. Comprehension - constructing and extracting meaning through interacting with text

16. finding meaning in the text

17. Background knowledge is a key component to comprehension.

18. Fluency plays a large, but not exclusive, role in comprehension

19. Developing vocabulary

20. the reader, the text, and the task matter

21. interaction between text, reader, and task

22. explicit instruction in comprehension is needed; not sure we always know what that is supposed to be

23. Little information about best teaching practices

24. Hollis Scarborogh's reading rope...interaction between word recognition and language comprehension

25. Decoding is paramount before comprehension can take place.