Comprehension
Comprehension is the ability to understand what you read, process the information, gain knowledge from the text you read, remember what we read and put the information to use. Reading comprehension is interactive and intentional.
An advance reader uses the following comprehension strategies:
· Establishing a purpose for reading
· Using knowledge
· Asking and answering questions
· Making inferences
· Determining what is important
· Summarizing
· Dealing with graphic information
· Imaging and creative graphic representations
· Being metacognitive
Comprehension is the ability to understand what you read, process the information, gain knowledge from the text you read, remember what we read and put the information to use. Reading comprehension is interactive and intentional.
An advance reader uses the following comprehension strategies:
· Establishing a purpose for reading
· Using knowledge
· Asking and answering questions
· Making inferences
· Determining what is important
· Summarizing
· Dealing with graphic information
· Imaging and creative graphic representations
· Being metacognitive