cyberneticlibrary

Build reading comprehension skills

reading-comprehensionskillsetup L164
Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator
What it does

Teach reading strategies and text meaning-making

Best for

Teaching comprehension when decoding is automatic and meaning-construction needs scaffolding.

Inputs
  • · Text passage
  • · Reader grade level
  • · Comprehension difficulty
Outputs
  • · Strategy explanation
  • · Question suggestions
  • · Text structure diagram
  • · Reading plan
Preconditions
  • · Reader can decode words
  • · Sight word vocabulary >= 50
  • · Can segment sentences
Failure modes
  • · Prior knowledge conflicts → refusal
  • · Inference too demanding
  • · Text structure unclear
  • · Passive reading
Trust signals
  • · Tibsfox research
  • · RAND 2002 framework
  • · Seven evidence-based strategies
  • · Pressley & Afflerbach 1995