Oregon Educator Licensure Assessments (ORELA) Practice Exam

Which strategy focuses on how the text is organized to enhance understanding?

1. Predicting

2. Text structure

3. Summarization

4. Inferential cues

The correct answer is: Text structure

The strategy that focuses on how the text is organized to enhance understanding is text structure. Understanding text structure involves recognizing the various ways in which information is presented in a text, such as through cause and effect, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, or chronological order. This awareness helps readers to better comprehend the flow of ideas and the relationships among different concepts, allowing for more effective engagement with the material. By identifying the author's organizational techniques, readers can improve their ability to anticipate the information that will follow, thereby enhancing their overall understanding of the text. Other strategies, such as predicting, summarization, and inferential cues, contribute to comprehension but do not specifically focus on recognizing the organization of the text itself. Instead, predicting involves anticipating what will happen next based on prior knowledge and context, summarization is about distilling the main ideas and key points from the text, and inferential cues guide readers in drawing conclusions based on implicit information presented in the text. While these strategies are valuable for overall comprehension, it is the understanding of text structure that specifically enhances the ability to navigate and understand the organization of a text.