This document discusses reading comprehension strategies and how prior knowledge and schema can impact a reader's ability to make inferences. It specifically looks at how incorporating graphic organizers and adjusting the type of inference required based on text can improve comprehension for students. The document presents results from an intervention study that showed comprehension and inference-making improved more when students were asked to reorder information depending on the type of inference needed to understand the text. It also honors a beloved pet named Willow Brooks who is still alive.

1. Things That Make You Go
HMMMMM?!
Ashley Brooks
MAEd- READ ECU Graduate Student
Dr. Elizabeth Swaggerty-ECU

2. Infer: Strategic Action
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Inferring-Reading-Strategy-
Poster-20883

3. Text Clues
Clues directly from
text
http://www.mycutegraphics.com/graphics/detective/de
tective-and-dog-investigating-clues.html

4. Schema/Prior Knowledge
“Reading is a process of actively constructing
of meaning and connecting prior knowledge
with new information” (Pearson, Dole, Roeler, and Duffy, 2007).
There are three kinds of prior knowledge or schema:
1. Specific knowledge about topic of the text
2. General world knowledge about social relationships and casual
structures
3. Knowledge about the text’s organization (genre)

5. We’ve all heard that….
http://earlychildhood-yearsix.blogspot.com/2012_12_01_archive.html

7. Results of Text
+Schema=Inference
87.5
75
87.5
56.3
62.5
85.7
57.1
66.7
50
57.1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Child 1 Child 2 Child 3 Child 4 Child 5
Pre-intervention
Treatment 1

8. But Did You Know???
https://languageartstheoryandpractice.wikispaces.com/Reading+at+the+secondary+scho
ol+level

9. Schema Getting in the Way
http://www.cartoonmotivators.com/Roadblock.html

10. Order Can Impact
Comprehension
http://www.teachthought.com/featured/read-dont-understand/

11. Graphic Organizer Adjustment :
Text + Inference = Schema
85.7
57.1
66.7
50
57.1
87.5 92.9
81.3 75
75
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Child 1 Child 2 Child 3 Child 4 Child 5
Pre-intervention
Treatment 1
Treatment 2

12. Type of Inference Matters
Reorder Depending
on Type of Inference
Leads to
Comprehension

13. HMMM?????
http://meandmythrees.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-do-you-infer.html

14. RIP: Beloved Willow Brooks
Willow Brooks
Our Beloved
You will never be forgotten
2004-2014

15. Meet Willow
(She’s 1 years old and still very much alive )

16. Ashley Brooks
brooksa02@students.ecu.edu
Elizabeth Swaggerty
swaggertye@ecu.edu