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ABC Reading Comprehension Strategies Make You Think Related Articles Reading Comprehension Strategies: 3 Strategies To Enhance Your Reading And Learning Comprehension Reading Comprehension Strategies 8 Reading Comprehension Strategies That Work For Kids Successful Reading Comprehension Strategies For Your Ftce General Knowledge Test Your brain automatically uses reading comprehension strategies to comprehend what you read. You have learned to use these strategies over years of engaging with text. You may have been shown how to use the strateiges or you figured out how to use them on your own. Being familiar with what the words on a page are communicating is the principal purpose of reading.
Reading Comprehension strategies force readers to actively think about the text they are reading. It is important to teach young readers how to use reading comprehension strategies so that they can improve comprehension by identifying the author’s message or through visualizing. You brain automaitically begins to employ these strategies any time you are exposed to text. You begin to make connections between the text and your prior knowledge. You anticipate events and determine which words are most important to remember. You work to identify the most importnat information. All of the thinking that you do while reading, works to help you understand what you read. The reading comprehension strategies include: Retelling, Making Connections, MakingPredictions, Making Inferences, Identifying the Author’s Message, Visuzalizing, Asking Questions, Determining Importnace, Understanding Text Structure and Synthesizing. In order to comprehend, children must learn how to use each strategy and know when to use each strategy. Readers will learn to use the reading comprehension strateiges through continued practice. Modeling how to use each strategy is the best way to teach younger readers to employ reading comprehension strategies. Begin by reading a book from beginning to end. While reading, stop to discuss connections that you are able to make to the text or point out the words that help you visualize and form mental images. After learning and practicing the strategies, a child sho
uld start to read books for enjoyment instead of for the purpose of practicing one isolated strategy. The goal will not be for a child to pick up a book and believe that visualizing is reading or making connections is reading. Instead, the aim, as soon as they learn the strategies, is for a child to automatically use the strategies to deepen their comprehension. You can determine whether or not a reader is using comprehension strategies through using a reader’s notebook. A reader’s notebook is a spot for reader to keep track of their thoughts while before during and after reading a text. For example, a reader might ask questions about a text before reading, write down the connections they make while reading and determine importance to retell or summarize after reading. When you encourage children to write about their reading, you are providing them with the opportunity to think about their reading. It is not possible to write without thinking. Therefore, the reader will be forced to reflect on the information communicated in the text to respond in the reader’s notebook.