CHAPTER 14: NARRATIVE READING
Objectives
As a result of reading and studying this chapter students will be able to:
- Explain why most comprehension instruction begins with narrative text
- Identify the types of narrative text
- Explain the importance of story structure to effective comprehension of narrative text
- Create a graphic organizer for story structure
- Identify instructional strategies for applying comprehension strategies to narrative text
- Identify the impact of research on transactional theories on comprehension instruction
- Explain at what point comprehension should begin
- Identify important considerations in assessing and remediating comprehension
Key Terms
- Story structure
- Story map
- Setting
- Characters
- Plot
- Theme
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- TSI
- Reader response
- Story complexity factors
- Dialogic reading
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