Reading Comprehinsion

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What informal assessment tools can teachers use to measure reading comprehension?

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-Informal Reading Invantory
-Cloze Procedure
-Oral Reading Analysis
-Retelling
-Literal, Inferential, Applied Questions

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The Informal Reading Invantory (IRI) is...

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an individually-administered survey of student's reading fluency and comprehension. It assesses word recognition, word meaning, reading strategies, and reading comprehension.

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A Cloze procedure is...it measures

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a "fill-in-the-blanks" activity. The student is expected to use context clues to determine the words that have been deleted from the reading text. It measures reading comprehension and language mastery.

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Oral Reading Analysis involves the teacher...it measures

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listening to the student read aloud and making notes of his or her accuracy rate, errors and strategies for determining unknown words. It measures fluency and comprehension strategies.

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Retelling involves...

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the student describing the text to the teacher. This can serve as an indicator of how well the student understood the text.

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Literal, inferential, Applied Questions is really a series of three types of questions about the text. They are...

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1)Literal Questions
2)Inferential Questions
3)Applied or Evaluative Questions

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Literal Questions

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Questions about the facts of the text
-What color where Susie's Mittens?

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Inferential Questions

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Questions about what can be inferred from the text
-What do you think Susie will do next?

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Applied or Evaluative Questions

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Questions that involve some critical thinking and discrimination.
-What should Susie have done in the situation?
-What would you have done?

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List some assessments that that may be usefull in measuring not only reading comprehension, but many other sapects of literacy.

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Table 5; 4.2.2