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Building Comprehension

This document discusses strategies to build reading comprehension through activities done before, during, and after reading. It emphasizes that independent readers actively monitor their understanding by predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing, connecting, and evaluating the text. Comprehension involves understanding a text's structure and organization, such as chapter titles, headings, and text patterns. Graphic organizers can help students recognize patterns and relationships within a text to apply to their own understanding.

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Building Comprehension

This document discusses strategies to build reading comprehension through activities done before, during, and after reading. It emphasizes that independent readers actively monitor their understanding by predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing, connecting, and evaluating the text. Comprehension involves understanding a text's structure and organization, such as chapter titles, headings, and text patterns. Graphic organizers can help students recognize patterns and relationships within a text to apply to their own understanding.

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Building Comprehension

Through Pre-, During-,


and Post-Reading Strategies
Independent readers and fostering
strategies
• independent readers are those who are constantly monitoring their
understanding of the text as they read it.
• Independent readers are supposed to be predicting, questioning,
clarifying, summarizing, connecting, and evaluating as they read,
essentially engaging in a dialogue with the author and themselves in
their minds.
• Independent readers should be “reading with (their) mind as opposed
to just reading with (their) mouth.
• This first segment will provide specific strategies that help students
“read with their minds”.
Reading is an active process that requires
critical thought before, during, and after
engaging the text.
One overarching key to comprehension is the understanding
of a text at the structural and organizational level.
• Books, textbooks and other type of written material are replete with
structural and organizational elements that can enhance
comprehension (if used properly).
Chapter
titles

Chapter
captions headings

Text
structures

Bolded
vocabulary subheadings
With fiction, most students can anticipate the structure of the
story, but when they read informational text, even if it’s about
frogs and toads, readers don’t know how the information will be
structured. If students preview the materials and get a sense
of…how the author decided to organize the information, then they
can use that sense of organization and priority in their own
learning.
Donna Ogle, literacy specialist.
In addition to noticing the physical
“signposts” of a text, students must be able
to recognize patterns of writing that are often
contained in textbooks or other pieces of
reading.
Graphic organizers
• Graphic organizers help students see how ideas are organized within
a text or concept. Learners can then apply this structure to their own
ideas. Learners are thus better able to understand relationships
between complex ideas or to arrange information to facilitate
retention and recall.
•For example, for the Generalization/Principle
pattern illustrated by the paragraph above,
the following graphic organizer would be a
useful structure to help students analyze
passages in the text with this text pattern:

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