Ohne Titel

seven strategies for text comprehension

monitoring comprehension

Metacognition

Graphic and semantic organizers

answering questions

generating questions

recognizing story structure

summarizing

instruction can help students become better in this strategy

these students

are aware of what they do understand and what they do not

they use strategies to fix problems in their understanding

it is "thinking about thinking"

students with metacognition can:

clarify the purpose of their reading and preview the text.

monitor their understanding

adjusting their reading speed to the difficulty of the text

"fixing" any comprehension problems

comprehension monitoring strategies:

identify where the difficulty occurs

Identify what the difficulty is

Restate the difficult sentence or passage in their own words

Look back through the text

Look forward in the text for information for to resolve the difficulty

these can:

help reader foucus on concepts and how they are related to other concepts

help students differentiate between fiction and nonfiction

help students write well- organized summaries

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

questions can:

give students a purpose for reading

focus students attention

help students to think actively as they read

help student monitoring their comprenhension

help student relate what they have learned to what they already know

"right there"

types of questions

"think and search"

questions found right in the text

questions based on the recall of facts that can be found directly in the text

Student's must

understand the text and relate it to their prior knowledge

"author and you"

"on your own"

Questions are answered based on students’ prior knowledge and experiences.

students can:

understand what they are reading

learn to ask themselves questions

In response to this

they are forced to combine information from different segments of the text

with this strategy

students learn to identify

the categories of content

characters

setting

events

problem

resolution

it determines what is important in a reading

with this strategy students:

can put summary into their own words

identify or generate main ideas and connect it

eliminate unnecesary information

remember what they read