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Reading comprehension : new directions for classroom practice / John D. McNeil.

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Main Author: McNeil, John D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman, ©1984.
Subjects:
Reading comprehension.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Reading Comprehension as a Cognitive Process: The Assessment of Schemata for Reading
  • Comprehension As Process
  • What Tests Tell Us About Reading Comprehension
  • Schema Theory
  • Applying Schema Theory In Building And Activation Pupils' Background Knowledge
  • Applying Schema Theory In Assessing Pupils' Comprehension Of Stories
  • Applying Schema Theory In Assessing Pupils' Concepts of Reading
  • Summary
  • 2. Active Readers
  • From Answering To Asking Questions
  • Helping Pupils Ask Questions
  • Consequences Of Questioning By Pupils
  • Effects Of Questioning By Teachers
  • Relating Children's Backgrounds To Their Reading
  • Differences Between Pupils' And Authors' Purposes
  • Schemata For Communicating With Authors
  • Summary
  • 3. Elaboration in Reading
  • Using Mental Imagery In Comprehending Text
  • Making Inferences While Elaborating
  • A Procedure For Helping Pupils Infer
  • Other Ways To Elaborate Text
  • Going Beyond The Author's Intentions
  • Summary
  • 4. Restructuring Schemata
  • Identifying Conflicting Cognitive Structures
  • Forming And Changing Schemata
  • Models For Restructuring Schemata
  • Summary
  • 5. Metacognition in Reading Comprehension
  • Self-Knowledge
  • Task Knowledge
  • Self-Monitoring
  • Summary
  • 6. Teaching Vocabulary from an Interactive View of Reading Comprehension
  • Kinds of Word Meaning
  • Assumptions About Learning Words
  • Teaching Vocabulary As A Network Of Ideas
  • Semantic Mapping
  • Semantic Feature Analysis
  • Frayer Model
  • Contextual Processing
  • Summary
  • 7. Improving Comprehension of Sentences
  • Sentence Patterns That Require Transforming
  • Comprehending Anaphoric Relationships
  • Aids To Understanding Sentence Relations
  • Analogies, Metaphors, Similes, And Other COIKs
  • Summary
  • 8. Comprehending Different Types of Discourse
  • Types Of Discourse
  • Comprehending Narrative Text
  • Comprehending Expository Text
  • Summary.

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