Text Structure for Comprehension
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Text Structure for Comprehension
To strengthen inferencing skills and help students identify nuances
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Objective: Students will exercise inferencing skills and increase their comprehension of a text when they pay close attention to text structure, chapter titles and sub-headings, beginnings, endings and pictures. -
Guide students through the checklist on the next slide to help them utilize common book structure and format as a foundation for better understanding of story sequence, details and the author's purpose.
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Note: If your student reads too quickly you can use this strategy to help them slow down by having them annotate and/or highlight these items to ensure they don't skip right over them.
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At the beginning of each chapter, read the title and first sentence. Make a prediction about what the chapter will be about. Jot your prediction down so you can check back and see how close you were.
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If the chapter title and beginning sentence do not give enough information, go back and re-read the last paragraph of the previous chapter. Are there clues of what is to come?
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Check any images, as they usually emphasize the most important details or events.
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Note any section breaks within the page. Asterisks or symbols often suggest that there is a shift in time or place.
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Notice if any words in the reading are in bold, italics or underlined. Authors use these formats for emphasis, so think about why these phrases are highlighted.