A teacher asks her students to highlight the main ideas in an expository passage. This activity best addresses which component of reading instruction? - comprehensive
The main factors that influence comprehension are
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A teacher asks her students to highlight the main ideas in an expository passage. This activity best addresses which component of reading instruction? - comprehensive
The main factors that influence comprehension are the reader, the text, task, and the context. - True
Which of the following is a major factor that directly influences comprehension? - Background knowledge
Which of the following is a common characteristic of written, academic text? - complex sentences
Which characteristic of a reader has the most powerful impact on their reading comprehension? - Decoding
All of the following are examples of figurative language except: - idioms: a phrase that doesn't mean exactly what it says
- similes: comparing two or more things using like or as.
- metaphor: comparing two or more things without using like or as.
- colloquial expressions: informal words, phrases, or slang.
Which of the following is an example of a compound sentence? - two complete sentences joined by coordinating conjunction.example: Joe waited for the train, Jill drove a car.
Which of the following is an effective technique to teach sentence comprehension? - read aloud, stretch a sentence, rewriting short sentences into more complex ones.
Knowing about story structure is valuable for students because - students contain different structures, such a passive voice, double negatives, verb tenses and auxiliaries, prepositions and articles, ambiguous phrases, word order, and placement of phrases.
Expository text is characterized by all of the following except - Expository Text Structures- description, sequence of events, classification, cause and effect, and compare and contrast
Effective comprehension strategies used by good readers include all of the following except: -
In explicit instruction, the teacher uses queries to facilitate both gap-filling and bridging inferences - True
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