Categories of writing styles which are determined by various characteristics such as narrative technique, tone, or content.

A method that assists emergent readers in selecting material at an appropriate reading level.

A format for the teaching of reading, developed by Susan McMahon and Taffy Raphael, in which students select the books they wish to read, discuss them in small groups, and share their reflections with the whole group.

In QARs, the quality associated with an answer to questions that can be found in the text but require students to synthesize materials within the text.

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.

Words that appear in nearly every sentence within a paragraph.

A reading technique which aims to help students determine the difference between questions with answers that can be found directly in the text (“right there”), questions with answers that can be found in the text but require synthesizing information (“putting it together”), and questions that require the reader to use