Your child will experience the following instruction:

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  Literal Comprehension

  Literal comprehension, or Find the Fact, questions are those in which the answer is explicitly stated in the text. Learners identify when a question is asking about something that can be found in the text, learn how to find the answer in the text, and match an answer choice with the words that they found in the text.

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  Inferential Comprehension

  Inferential comprehension, or Clue Word, questions are those in which the answer is not explicitly stated in the text. When learners can't find the fact in the passage, they learn to look back for clue words that make them think about the answer to the question. The clue words are different than the possible answers, but they help answer the question.

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  Mostly About/Main Idea Comprehension

  Main Idea, or Mostly About, questions involve identifying the predominant theme in a passage. Learners first learn how to identify the theme of a portion of text, then determine how often that theme occurs by filling "theme buckets," and ultimately decide that the most common theme is what the paragraph or passage talks about the most.

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  Vocabulary/Derived Meaning

  Derived Meaning, or Vocabulary, questions ask the learner to identify the meaning of a word or phrase that occurs in the text. Learners are asked to substitute the possible word meanings given for the target word in the sentence where the word appears. They then decide if the sentence or group of sentences "makes sense" with the substituted word or words. The possible answer that makes the most sense is what the word or words most likely mean.

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  Using Resources

  Using resources that accompany text (such as tables of contents, maps, and illustrations) is important for reading comprehension. These skills are also frequently measured by standardized tests. In Headsprout Reading Comprehension, learners learn how to use a table of contents to identify where to find information about particular topics, as well as how to use maps, measurement tools, and other illustrations that accompany the text.

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  Organizing Information

  Learners learn to read and work with several types of diagrams that organize information contained in text, including hierarchical diagrams, Venn diagrams, sequence diagrams, and cluster diagrams. Learners first learn how to organize their prior knowledge in a visual format, and then complete diagrams based on text they read.

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