Chapter 8 Summary

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Chapter 8 is about comprehension assessment, the most important goal at end of the reading process. In this chapter it mentions two reasons for assessing comprehension, to gauge a student’s comprehension and to gather an estimate of their proficiency in reading. Approaching a comprehension assessment can be tricky, with the right type of questions teachers can focus on facts, conclusions and how the child has processed the reading section. Some of the questions are literal-students can recall specific information, inferential-students must use logic to answer and critical- student can form a judgement on the section. There are two types of assessments mentioned in the chapter, Cloze-involving the student’s ability to fill in the blank with