Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Tasks Week #6

Dimensions of Informational Text Comprehension
(as measured in the Concepts of Comprehension Assessment (COCA))

Concepts of Comprehension Assessment also known as COCA was developed to improve students’ knowledge in comprehension.  Four of the most important are used for the teachers benefit to improve students understanding of a particular task.  The four dimensions are Comprehension Strategies Use, Knowledge of Informational Text Features, Comprehension of Graphics in the Context of Text, and Vocabulary of high utility of science words and strategies for rarer words.

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