Strategies for reading comprehension

Strategies for reading comprehension

1. Identify the purpose in reading

   • Efficient reading consists of clearly identifying the purpose in reading something.

2. Use graphemic rules and patternsto aid in bottom up decoding

   • Phonics approcaches to reading can prove useful for learners at the beginning level

3. Use efficient silent reading techniques for improving fluency

   • 1.- You don´t need to pronounce each word to yourself, 2.- Try to visually perceive more than one word at a time, preferably phases. 3.- Unless a word is absolutely crucial to global understanding, skip over it and try to infer its meaning from its context.

4. Skim the text for main ideas

   • Consist of quickly running one´s across a whole text for its gist

5. Scan the text for specific information

   • quikly searching for some particular piece or pieces of information in a text

6. Use semantic mapping or clustering

   • it helps the reader to provide some order to the chaos

7. Guess when you aren´t certain

   • Guess the meaning of a word or a grammtical relationship

8. Analyze vocabulary

   • Look for grammatical context that may signal information. Look at the semantic context for clues

9. Distinguish between literal and implied meanings

   • Implied meaning usually has to be derived from processing pragmatic information

10. Capitalize on discourse markers to process relationship

    • A clear comprehension of such markers can enhance learners efficient