1. Comprehension of Narrative Text
Chapter 8
Book: Literacy Assessment & Intervention for Classroom Teachers by Beverly A. DeVries
Presented by Maria Daniela Garcia

2. Comprehension
Is a complex, cognitive process that results in readers making “connections” between what they know—prior knowledge— and what they are reading—the text—.
McLaughlin, 2012

3. Research in Comprehension
Research indicates that readers use the following strategies to comprehend text:
Draw inferences
Predict
Self-monitoring
Retell and summarize
Draw conclusions
Activate prior knowledge
And visualize before, during, and after reading

4. Comprehension and other skills
Comprehension is intertwined with other reading knowledge and skills:
Decoding
Vocabulary
Fluency
Prior knowledge

5. Decoding
Recognizing familiar words automatically and decoding unknown words quickly are essential skills for comprehending text.

6. Fluency and Vocabulary
Implies a reader can accurately and automatically recognize a large bank of words, read at an appropriate rate—75 words per minute with 98% accuracy—and with prosody.
A large listening vocabulary is necessary for comprehension—Nagy & Scott, Shanahan (2012) suggests that a teacher not teach unknown words before she reads a story, but after reading, she can ask students what they think certain words mean.

7. Close reading of Complex Narrative Text
1. Level of meaning of the text
2.The structure of the story
Range from single level of meaning—which is easier to comprehend—to stories with multiple levels of meaning—such as allegories or fables.
Events in chronological order
Flashbacks and flash forwards.
Traits common to genres

8. Close reading of Complex Narrative Text
3.The clarity of the language
4.The demands on the readers’ past experiences
Does the story use literal language or figurative or ironic language?
Is the language contemporary and conversational or archaic?
Is there one simple theme or multiple themes?
Is the story based on everyday experiences or is it clear fantasy?
Is it like the reader’s or different.

9. Close reading of Complex Narrative Text
5. The cultural/literary demands placed on the reader
Has the text taken place in a familiar time and place or has low intertextuality is easier than a story that involves another culture or has many allusions to other stories.

10. Reading comprehension strategies
Inferencing
Self-monitoring
Visualizing
Connecting prior knowledge to text
Predicting
Setting a purpose
Retelling story elements
Drawing conclusions
Elaborating on the author’s intent

11. Assessments for comprehension on Narrative Texts
Informal Reading Invetories—IRI =
Miscue Analysis =
Running Records =

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