1. WORDS
1.1. VOCAB CONCERNS THE KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE ABOUT WORD MEANINGS. WORD COMPREHENSION OR VOCAB KNOWLEDGE IS A GOOD INDICATOR OF READING COMPRHENSION.
1.1.1. DEFINITIONS
1.1.1.1. NARRATIVE TEXT: text that generally includes characters, a setting, a conflict or problem, and a resolution.
1.1.1.2. RECEPTIVE VOCAB: a measure of usually spoken vocabulary comprehension.
1.1.1.3. SYNTACTIC AWARENESS: the abiltiy to reflect on and manipulative syntactic structure.
1.1.1.4. UNCONSTRAINED SKILL: a skill does not have a fixed number of elemnts and has extended developmental trajectory.
2. SENTENCE STRUCTURE COMPREHENSION
2.1. READER MUST ESTABLISH THE MEANING OF THAT SENTENCE,COMPREHENSION OF INDIVIDUAL SENTENCES IS ALSO RELATED TO READING COMPRHENSION.
2.1.1. DEFINITIONS
2.1.1.1. CONSTRAINED SKILL: a skill with a finite number of elements to be learned, which are usually acquired early in development
2.1.1.2. ERROR DETECTION TASK: a popular task used to assess comprehension monitoring in which readers are required to detect deliberate errors in a text.
2.1.1.3. EXPOSITORY TEXT: text such as newspaper and magazine articles, book chapters and essays, which has purpose of explaining informing, defining, clarifying or instructing.
3. DISCOURSE SKILLS
3.1. DISCOURSE REFERS TO UNITS OF LANGUAGE LONGER THAN A SINGLE SENTENCE. SEVERAL SKILLS ARE CRUCIAL FOR UNDERSTANDINGS DISCOURSE.
3.1.1. DEFINITIONS
3.1.1.1. EXPRESSIVE VOCAB: a measure of (usually spoken( vocabulary use.
3.1.1.2. METALINGUISTIC SKILL: a skill that involves deliberate andncontrolled reflection on language.
3.1.1.3. MORPHOLOGICAL AWARENESS: the ability to reflect on and manipulate the morphological structure of words.