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Monitoring Comprehension

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National Reading Panel Report

Question answering:
Where readers answer questions posed by the teacher and receive immediate feedback.

Question generation:
Where readers ask themselves about various aspects of the text.

Story structure:
Where students are taught to use the structure of the story as a means of helping them recall story content.

(National Reading Panel Summary 2000, 15)