Comprehension involves understanding written or spoken language. It is the ability to grasp meaning from context and perceive information. Good readers use various strategies before, during, and after reading to aid comprehension, such as setting goals, making predictions, monitoring understanding, connecting to prior knowledge, asking questions, and summarizing. Comprehension strategies taught include recognizing text structure, predicting, monitoring, connecting to background knowledge, asking questions, summarizing, and constructing mental images. Promoting language skills, actively engaging students, providing explicit instruction, and emphasizing strategy transfer can help readers at all levels improve their comprehension.
7. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Dimensions of Text:
Content
Genre
Structure
Language
Adept diction
Writing quality
Complexity
Graphic design features
Media based
8. ELEMENTS OF COMPREHENSION:
Text
Narrative
Informational
Purpose for reading: Identifying reading task.
Processes for reading: Determining approach
for reading.
Consequences of reading: Increased
knowledge, engagement.
Context: Social and cultural factors of school,
family and community.
9. WHAT GOOD READERS DO BEFORE
COMPREHENSION?
Set goal or purpose.
Preview text.
Make predictions.
10. WHAT GOOD READERS DO DURING THE
READING?
Connect to world knowledge.
Make inferences.
Adjust reading by skimming.
Adjust reading by focusing.
Adjust the practice of rereading the notes.
11. WHAT GOOD READERS DO DURING THE
READING?
Check and adapt predictions.
Summarize passages.
Ask questions.
Respond and evaluate text.
Monitor comprehension.
Check and repair
12. WHAT GOOD READERS DO AFTER READING?
Reread.
Summarize.
Reflect.
Determine how the information can be used
and recalled.
13. COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
Recognizing text structure
Predicting
Monitoring (Meta-cognition)
Connecting to world knowledge
Asking Questions
Summarizing
Constructing Mental Images
17. CONCLUSION
Promote language production and vocabulary.
Actively engages students in monitoring.
For novice readers in their primary language:
provide explicit word level skills.
Emphasize transferring strategies from their
native language to English(target language).