In QARs, the quality associated with answers to questions that are stated literally and can be located directly in the text.

Vital for reading comprehension, the arrangement of the relationships between words, sentences, paragraphs, and larger segments of writing.

A degree or quality regarding the level of difficulty of a text which is measured by looking contextually at the qualitative and quantitative as well as the reader and task-related aspects of a given text.

The unified presence of lexical connections within a given text, which gives it meaning.

The set of rules and interacting patterns of the language concerned with the order of words in a sentence, punctuation placement, and capital letter use to help readers decipher the grammatical structure in a text and apply that knowledge for word recognition and comprehension.

A reading comprehension strategy that moves from focusing on sentences to paragraphs. This framework provides students with proper contextual information, corrects any incorrect cues in the sentences, answers any questions students might have about the sentence and asks students questions to clarify the material further.

Representing, through a visual display, the relationships between the elements in the composition of a story or expository selection. It is also known as mapping.

A dynamic set of knowledge about meaning in language that a reader has, including the underlying concepts of words and how those concepts relate. Through this, the reader can organize concepts and identify the significant aspects of a variety of concepts.

In QARs, the quality associated with an answer to questions from which the information must be rooted in the student’s background knowledge.

Substitutes for words that usually and repeatedly appear in a passage. Pronouns are an example.