Strategies for Text Comprehension

Strategies for Text Comprehension

1. These strategies are:

   • Monitoring Comprehension
     • Teaches students to:
       • Be aware of what they do understand.
         • Identify what they don't understand.
           • Use appropriate strategies to resolve problems in comprehension.
   • Metacognition
     • The follow strategies should be use
       • Identify where the difficulty occurs.
         • Reread the text.
           • Be patient to find information.
       • Identify what the difficulty is.
       • Paraphrase difficult sentences.
   • Graphic and semantic organizers
     • Graphics organizers can:
       • Help students focus on text structure.
       • Provide students with tools.
         • Some examples of graphics organizers are:
           • Venn-Diagrams.
           • Storyboard/Chain of Events.
           • Story Map.
           • Cause-Effect.
       • Helps write well-organized summaries of a text.
   • Recognizing Story Structure
     • Students learn to identify the categories of content.
       • The categories are:
         • Characters
         • Setting
         • Events
         • Resolution
         • Problem
   • Summarizing
     • Help students to:
       • Identify or generate main ideas.
       • Connect the main or central ideas.
       • Eliminate unnecessary information.
       • Remenber what they read.
   • Generating Questions
     • Students become aware of wheter they can answer the questions.
       • For example:
         • Learn to wonder about the main ideas.
   • Answering Questions
     • Are effective because:
       • Give a purpose of reading.
         • Encourage to monitor the comprehension.
           • Help to review content and prior knowledge.
             • There are four different types of questions:
               • Right There.
               • Think and Search.
               • Author and you.
               • On your own.
       • Focus attention on a learning objective.
       • Help to think actively.