READING COMPREHENSION ESTRATEGIES

READING COMPREHENSION ESTRATEGIES

1. Learning to read is a complex skill that demands a lot from our students. They need to comprehend what they read in a fluency and automatic way.

   • There are 7 comprehension strategies that help the learning to read.
     • The first strategy is called monitoring comprehension, it consist on paying attention to your thinkings while you read.
       • The second is Visualization Comprehension which consist of creating pictures in your minds as you read
         • The third strategy named Activating Prior Knowledge Comprehension consist on making connections between what they read with their own experiences.
           • forth, Questioning Comprehension is a strategy that encourage the critical thinking in the students, it make students question what they read.
             • In the fifth Place is the inferring comprehension which is a kind of detective activity, it consist in deducting facts that aren't made explicit.
               • In the Sixth Place the strategy consist on summarizing what you read, this exercise allow you to organize the main ideas or events on a text so you can know by heart what it talk about.
                 • Finally the last strategy consist in learning to prioritize the ideas, determine the importance of the information while you read.