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Reading Comprehension

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

READING COMPREHENSION

  • Good readers are purposeful and active
  • Comprehension is the reason for reading

COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES

  • Helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading comprehension

MONITORING COMPREHENSION

  • Students that are good at monitoring comprehension know when they understand and when they do not

USING GRAPHIC AND SEMANTIC ORGANIZERS

  • Using diagrams or other pictorial devices
  • Helps student focus on text structures
  • Helps students write well organized summaries of a text

ANSWERING QUESTIONS

  • Guides and monitors students learning
  • Gives students a purpose for reading
  • Helps them to think actively as they read

GENERATING QUESTIONS

  • Students ask their own questions
  • Improves their active processing of text and comprehension

RECOGNIZING STORY STRUCTURE

  • Students learn to identify the categories of content
  • Recognize story structures through story maps

SUMMARIZING

  • Requires students to determine what’s important
  • To condense info and put things into their own words