Teaching reading comprehension processes / Judith Westphal Irwin.

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Comprehension process: an overview -- Comprehension process teaching -- Research-based socio-cultural teaching practices -- Meaningful and authentic reading activities -- Amount of reading -- Discussions -- Process instruction -- Writing for comprehension -- Questions on content (meaning) and process (making) -- Culturally responsive and relevant teaching -- Instructional methods -- Understanding and connecting sentences -- Comprehending sentences -- Chunking -- Selecting details -- Anaphora -- Connectives -- Slot-filling inferences -- Local versus global connections -- Understanding the whole -- Story grammars -- Organizational patterns in expository materials -- Selecting important information in nonfiction materials -- Summarizing -- Elaborating -- Prediction -- Other prior-knowledge elaborations -- Mental imagery -- Visual literacy -- Affective and aesthetic response -- Higher-level thinking -- Critical literacy -- Metacognition: selecting, evaluating and regulating strategies -- Adjusting strategies according to context -- Comprehension monitoring -- Reading for remembering: studying -- Computer literacy -- Reader contexts: who is reading? -- Prior knowledge -- Motivation -- Cultural differences -- Text contexts: what is being read? -- Readability -- Matching students with materials -- Bias in school reading material -- Situational contexts: why, when and where are they reading? -- The comprehension task -- Social context -- Integrating assessment and instruction -- Standardized tests of comprehension ability -- Multicontext assessment -- Assessment of retelling -- Thinking aloud -- Portfolio assessment -- Prescriptive teaching examples -- Outer context.