Comprehension of Narrative Text

1. Assessing Reading Abilities

1.1. Formal Assessments

1.1.1. Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests

1.1.2. Iowa Tests of Basic Skills

1.2. Informal Assessments

1.2.1. Retelling of story

1.2.2. Questioning

2. Comprehension Strategies Before Reading

2.1. Build background knowledge

2.2. Make predictions

2.2.1. Predicting

2.2.2. Semantic Impressions

2.2.3. Probable passages

2.3. Read story to students

3. Comprehension Strategies During Reading

3.1. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity

3.2. Post-It note strategy

3.3. Making mental images

3.4. Composing questions

3.5. Discussion cards

4. Metacognition

4.1. Active process

4.1.1. Goal 1

4.1.2. Goal 2

4.2. Background knowledge

4.2.1. Session Rule 1

4.2.2. Session Rule 2

4.3. Higher-level thinking

4.4. Toolbox of reading strategies

5. Comprehension Strategies After Reading

5.1. Story maps

5.2. Somebody Wanted But So

5.3. Problem-solution identification

5.4. Story Pyramids

5.5. Character webs

5.6. Skinny books