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Applied understanding questions may ask students' opinion and ask them to elaborate on it. For example: How do you think someone would feel about playing alone like Billy? Your answer might be that people like being alone sometimes, especially if they are trying to accomplish something on their own.

Here are examples of the type of information that could be identified as evaluative meaning:

The author’s purpose for writing the story

Comparing the text to a real-life situation

What the text is saying about human characteristics

Determining if you agree with the author’s conclusion

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Evaluative (applied) meaning is what the text is telling us about the world outside the story.

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Generalizations

Cause and effect relationships

Future predictions

An unstated main idea

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Interesting take from literacy teaching toolkit

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readers/viewers are required to justify their opinions, argue for a particular viewpoint, critically analyse the content and determine the position of the author.

Evaluative comprehension is often referred to as ‘beyond the text’ and includes ‘big picture’ comprehension. Often there is no right or wrong answer but rather justification for thinking in a particular way.

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Evaluative (applied) comprehension requires the reader to move beyond the text to consider what they think and believe in relation to the message in the text.

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Applied questioning should promote authentic dialogue, be carefully chosen and be open ended (not yes or no)

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Applied questions involve application to an invented scenario, interpretation of the text including the readers judgement, opinion and personal response.

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Applied questions connect to the real world and help students make connections between the text, their own opinions and scenarios.

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Without understanding literal comprehension, students will not be able to build on their understanding into inferential and applied.

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1. Could this possibly happen?
2. Is this argument logical?
3. What alternatives are there?
4. Is this a fact or an opinion?
5. Do you agree or disagree with the author?
6. What is the best solution to this problem?

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Inferential understanding is what the author means by what is said (reading between the lines)

Applied understanding is why the author has said what they said (the reader uses external criteria from their experiences to evaluate quality and values of the reading, authors reasoning and generalisations) Because everyone has a different life, answers to applied questions may vary.

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Australian Literacy Academy - Private English Tutoring Castle Hill and Online

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Lately I have been getting a lot of enquiries regarding comprehension skills.The main theme all of these enquires follow are their child is struggling with comprehension, how can they help them.It is very important to know exactly what type of comprehension they appear to be struggling with and most parents are not informed of this.I have put together this information in the hopes of making this area a little clearer. Comprehension is, understanding what is being said or read. When it comes to reading, it is an active process that must be developed if a learner is to become a proficient reader. Effective reading skill development is further accomplished when the learner becomes proficient in literal, inferential and applied comprehension. to some of the following questions will vary:

Literal comprehension involves 1. What words state the main idea of the story?
2. How does the author summarize what she/he is saying?
3. Outlining the first paragraph of the story.
4. What happened first, second and last?
5. How are these things alike? How are they different?
6. What things belong together?

1. What does the author value?
2. What is the theme?
3. What effect does this character/event have on the story?
4. How do you think this story will end?

Applied comprehension concerns itself with why the author says what he or she says. This high level of comprehension requires the reader to use some external criteria from his/her own experience in order to evaluate the quality, values of the writing, the author's reasoning, simplifications, and generalizations. The reader will react emotionally and intellectually with the material. Because everyone's life experiences are varied, Inferential comprehension deals with what the author means by what is said. The reader must simply read between the lines and make inferences about things not directly stated. Again these inferences are made in the main idea, supporting details, sequence, and cause and effect relationships. Inferential comprehension could also involve interpreting figurative language, drawing conclusions, predicting outcomes, determining the mood, and judging the author's point of view. The following questions are usually asked:

what the author is actually saying. The reader needs to understand ideas and information explicitly stated in the reading material. Some of this information is in the form of recognising and recalling facts, identifying the main idea, supporting , categorizing, outlining, and summarizing. The reader is also locating information, using context clues to supply meaning, following specific , following a sequence, identifying stated conclusion, and identifying explicitly stated relationships and organizational patterns. These organizational patterns can include cause and effect as well as comparison and contrast. For example, some questions and 1. Could this possibly happen?
2. Is this argument logical?
3. What alternatives are there?
4. Is this a fact or an opinion?
5. Do you agree or with the author?
6. What is the best solution to this problem?

To conclude, literal, inferential and applied comprehension is what makes a skilled, strong reader. This skill must be learned and developed. It does not just happen. With that thought in mind, it has also been shown that strong readers make good writers. Sustained exposure to the English language does allow for an expanded vocabulary and knowledge of correct grammar usage. When this is combined with literal, inferential and applied comprehension, it enables writers to better express themselves.

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What does it mean by Literal, Inferential and Applied Comprehension? By Liana Chandler (Bach EC, M.T & M. Ed. Sp.)

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Lately I have been getting a lot of enquiries regarding comprehension skills.The main theme all of these enquires follow are their child is struggling with comprehension, how can they help them.It is very important to know exactly what type of comprehension they appear to be struggling with and most parents are not informed of this.I have put together this information in the hopes of making this area a little clearer.