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Seven strategies for Text Comprehension

Monitoring comprehension

Metacognition

Graphic and semantic organizers

Answering questions

Generating questions

Recognizing story structure

Summarizing

Monitoring comprehension can help students to be aware of what they understand and identify what they do not understand.

It is about thinking about the purpose of the reading and identifying the parts where it is not understood in order to reread and analyze them.

Graphic organizers can help readers focus on concepts and how they relate to other concepts.

Mind Maps

Concept Maps

Answering questions can make the student pay attention to what is most important and the connections to their prior knowledge.

By generating questions students can tell if they understood what they have read or not.

In story structure instruction, students learn to identify content categories.

Summarizing requires students to determine what is important in what they are reading and express it in their own words.