Gunning Chapter 7, Comprehension: Theory and Strategies

Gunning Chapter 7, Comprehension: Theory and Strategies

1. Comprehension Strategies

   • Strategy Instruction
   • Teacher Preparation Strategies
   • Teacher Organizational Strategies
   • Teaching Elaboration Strategies
   • Mystery Passages
   • Teaching Monitoring Strategies
   • Using Process Questions and Think-Alouds to Assess Comprehension
   • Scheduling Strategy Instruction
   • Special Comprehension Strategies for Bilingual Readers

2. The Process of Comprehending

   • Situation Model Theory
   • Role of Attention
   • Role of Surface Features
   • Developmental Nature of Comprehension
   • Schema Theory
   • Role of Reasoning

3. Approaches to Teaching Comprehension

   • Strategy Instruction
   • Content Instruction

4. Importance of Prior Knowledge

   • Making Connections

5. Social-Constructivist Nature of Comprehension

   • Reciprocal Teaching
   • Questioning the Author

6. Making Strategy Instruction Work

   • Integration of Strategies
   • Explicit Versus Nonexplicit Instruction of Strategies