How does Reading Assistant foster Reading Comprehension?

Reading Assistant ensures reading comprehension by providing:

• Most guided reading selections contain several guided reading questions.
• Guided reading questions use reading strategies to build comprehension skillsincluding: using prior knowledge, identifying a reading purpose, prediction, making connections, visualization, monitoring and clarifying, retelling, summarizing, using context clues for meaning, asking questions.
• If a student does not answer the guided reading question correctly on the first attempt he/she will be prompted with hints guiding them with reading strategies.
• Take the Quiz is designed to assess comprehension for the entire guided reading selection.
• Quizzes assess the comprehension skills of inference, sequence, story events, theme, character traits, figurative language, important information, compare and contrast, author’s point of view, fact and opinion, diagrams, charts and graphs, cause and effect and main idea.
• The comprehension quiz also assesses student’s level of thinking in the following dimensions: literal, inferential, evaluation and analysis.