Order Description
Read each question carefully and answer the questions in DETAIL. Use your textbooks, readings and PowerPoint presentations to guide your response.
• Your responses will more convincing if they are supported by citations.
• When you answer these questions, you will do so from the point that your reader has very little knowledge of reading comprehension.
• If correctly answered, any reader will be able to take your recommendations and implement them in a classroom.
• Make sure you have added sufficient details and information to warrant getting full marks for each question.

Question 1: Read the following case study and answer all questions.
As soon as Sandra, a new teacher got over the initial shock of her first year of teaching, she began to observe the different ways in which her fourth grade students comprehended the same passages.
Omar, one of her bilingual students, had trouble understanding how pronouns connected one sentence to another. He told her they “didn’t have all those little words” in his native language. Julia
found it difficult to recognize transitions from one sentence to another when the author didn’t put in clear transitional words. In her oral reading, she phrased these as if the author were
starting a new idea. Laticia was excellent at stating the facts of the passage but wasn’t likely to add any new information. She focused on “what the author said” and didn’t add information from
her own knowledge. All of Sandra’s students struggled when a selection wasn’t clearly organized, particularly in their content texts. Sandra also noticed that her own questions were sometimes
unfocused and seemed to confuse her students rather than help them focus on something important in what they were reading.
1. What does this case study demonstrate about comprehension?
Question 2: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
In the opening of Charlotte’s Web, (White, 1952), Fern lens that her father is on his way to the barn, carrying an ax, with the intent of “doing away” with the runt pig that was born the night
before. Fern’s mother explains that the pig would probably die anyway. Outraged at the ‘unfairness’ of killing the pig, ‘just because it is weak and little, “Fern runs after her father and pleads
for the pig’s life. He gives in to her plea, saying “I’ll let you start it on a bottle, like a baby. Then you‘ll see what trouble a pig can be” (p3).
1. What advice would you give Sandra to help her develop good question techniques? Assist her by demonstrating the appropriate questions she could ask from this passage. State the reason why you
are asking each type of question.
2. Identify and describe two strategies that she can model/use with her students to help them answer questions.
3. Describe one technique or strategy you would select to train Sandra to help all of her students become proficient in reading comprehension. Explain why your choice is effective (use citations to
support your answer).