ABSTRACT

A. Research Findings Concerning the Organization of Text B. Difficulties in Developing Organizational Comprehension C. Strategies for Developing Organizational Comprehension

1. Sequence 2. Categorization 3. Story Grammar 4. Expository Grammar or Textbook Organization 5. Summarizing, Outlining, and Underlining 6. Semantic Webbing 7. DRA

V. Developing Inferential Comprehension VI. Developing Evaluative Comprehension (Critical Reading)

VII. Developing Appreciative Comprehension A. Setting B. Theme C. Plot D. Resolution E. Genre F. Characterization G. Style

VIII. Developing Integrative Comprehension A. Content-Area Reading B. Rate of Comprehension

IX. Summary

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In the introduction to Part IV (Figure Part IV-I) the various facets of comprehension were outlined. One of these was identified as the ability to comprehend on different levels. Chapter 12 will focus on this aspect. To this point the discussion has focused on lexical access and semantic encoding (comprehending individual words) and on assembly and integration of propositions and text modeling (comprehending phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and the larger text). These are quantitative categories. Consider now a qualitative category.