OGET Study Guide 174 study review
Metacognition - "Thinking about thinking" or the ability to evaluate a cognitive task to
determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and adjust one's performance on
that task
Context clues - A vocabulary strategy in which the reader looks at the words around an
unfamiliar word to find clues to its meaning.
Semantics - Meaning of words and sentences
syntatic - The order of words in a sentence. (e.g. noun, verb)
Literal Comprehension - The lowest level of understanding. It involves reading the lines and
understanding exactly what is on the page. Students can repeat or paraphrase what they have
read.
Critical Comprehension - One of the highest levels of understanding. Requires readers to think
beyond the printed page. Ex. indicating whether text is true or false, distinguishing between
fact and opinion, detecting propaganda, judging whether the author is qualified to write the
text, recognizing bias and fallacies, identifying stereotypes, making assumptions.
Word Analysis - The process of identifying written words; it involves the use of phonics, sight
words, and context clues.
Summarization - distilling and condensing a text into its main idea and key details by identifying
story elements
Question Generation - constantly ask questions about comprehension, vocabulary, personal
knowledge or experiences, predictions
Textual Marking - where students interact with the text as they read to help them focus on the
importance of small things and provice a reference point for review
text structure - the author's method of organizing text. being able to follow the author's ideas
and relationships among ideas.
Children to develop literacy skills - phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension,
and fluency.
Theme (narrative) - central idea of a work. A theme must be universal and apply to everyone,
not just the characters in a story.
