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Strategies for Text Comprehension

Monitoring comprehension

Metacognition

Graphic and semantic organizers

Generating questions

Summarizing

Recognizing story structure

Answering questions

Be aware of what you do understand

Identify what you don't understand

Use appropriate strategies to resolve problems

Identify what and where is the difficulty

Be aware of whether you can answer the questions and if you understand what you are

reading.

Give a purpose for reading and focus attention on what you need to learn

Organizers illustrate concepts and relationships between concepts in a text or using diagrams.

Examples

Cause/Effect

Venn-Diagrams

Story maps

You learn to recognize story structure through the use of:

Storyboards

Identify or generate main ideas

Connect the main or central ideas

Eliminate unnecessary information

Helps to understand and remember what we read

Determine what is important in what you are reading

Look back through the text and look forward for information that might help you to resolve the difficulty

Restate the difficult sentence in your own words

It helps to actively think while reading and to review the content and to connect what has been learned with what is already known.