Reading+Comprehension

= ** Reading Comprehension  ** =   Comprehension is seen as the act of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning from the text. Looking at both extracting and constructing meaning from text is needed in reading. There are a few related road blocks to comprehension that are needed to be looked at in order to get further with comprehension; these include active involvement, attention, persistence, reflectivity and flexibility. Active involvement is looked into by making the children take charge of their brains by making them understand that it I them that need to focus on something in particular to remember it. This makes children remember what they have been reading.  Holding attention is a problem for some students and a way around this is by making the child take down little notes or drawings as they read to keep them focussed on the task and to keep a little summary of what they have read.   Being persistent is sometimes a problem when reading text that is difficult to comprehend. A way of solving this is to make the children discuss what was difficult in the text and what strategies could be used to be persistent and solve the problem. Taking time to reflect is a good way for making the information that has just been read sink in. A way of doing this is to tell a child that when they are finished reading to write down or draw about the information from the story. This could be looking at the plot, characters, and looking at what the problem was in the story and how it was fixed.  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">Being flexible in writing is very important because it looks at making a child take in feedback from the teacher and be able to make adjustments to their work. This means that it is not always bad to make mistakes as many students think it is but it is how we listen to feedback and use it to improve their writing. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">The different written language genres form good use for developing comprehension because they all portray different natures, purposes and processes of reading. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> Examples of the different genres that cause children to read texts in different ways are narrative and information texts. Narrative texts make the child look at characters and plot whereas information texts look at finding facts and to build concepts. By looking at the two different genres you can see how children can use these to understand how different genres create different meaning in text. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> HOME