Comprehension strategies

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Comprehension strategies

Ask questions.

They learn to ask themselves questions that force them to combine information from different text segments.

Recognize the structure of the story.

They learn to identify the categories of content (characters, setting, events, problems, solution).

They often learn to recognize the structure of the story through the use of story maps.

Summarize.

Remember what they read.

Eliminate unnecessary information.

Connect the central ideas.

Identify or generate main ideas.

Answer questions.

A purpose for reading.

Review the content and relate what they have learned to what they already know.

Monitor your understanding

Think actively as you read.

Focus attention

Organizers

Help students write well-organized summaries of a text.

Provide students with the tools they can use to examine and show relationships in a text.

Help students focus on the structure of the text “differences between fiction and non-fiction” as they read.

Metacognition

• Look ahead at the text for information that could help solve the difficulty

• Look back through the text

• Repeat difficult phrase or passage in own words

• Identify what the difficulty is

• Identify where the difficulty occurs

Comprehension check

Use appropriate strategies to solve comprehension problems

Identify what you don't understand

Be aware of what they understand and what they don't.