Thursday, April 14, 2011

Comprehension

Reading is all about comprehension! 

Comprehension is an active process and includes...
The reader (background knowledge the reader brings to the reading process)
The text (the author's ideas, the words they use, and how the text is organized)
The purpose (reading varies according to purpose. reading for a recipe is different than reading a      novel)


Teaching Strategies

Have students fill the first column before reading the text. After reading, they fill in the remaining columns with whether or not they were correct.



Teachers should use a variety of questions types to deepen thinking and give the students practice using text to find information.


Source: Jennifer Wimmer, Brigham Young University, 2011

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