Reading Comprehension and the Classroom
Apr 28, 2009
After 25 years of working with kids, we know that most of the problems that young students encounter at school can be traced back to their literacy skills, and in particular, reading comprehension.
Reading comprehension is the ability to read a sentence and understand its meaning. It is the ability to look at written words and quickly process the meaning, instruction, direction, idea, or inference.
Reading comprehension is not familiarity with a single word or its meaning, but rather the ability to recognize words, sentences, and paragraphs and make sense of the overall meaning.
When students have difficulty making sense of instructions, it can easily lead to poor grades, and poor grades can easily translate into frustration and an unwillingness to participate in class.
This doesn’t mean that a child has major issues with understanding or an underlying comprehension problem. It simply means that by working on basic literacy skills, that child will improve skills such as word pronunciation and vocabulary development and improve his or her reading comprehension.
Improve a child’s literacy skills and improve that child’s self esteem.
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Danae - May 18, 2009
This is totally true. I have some trouble with understanding what I read aloud in class, and what i read in general. Usually I have to read a word, phrase, sentence or even a whole paragraph twice to understand its meaning and sometimes to remember what it just told me. I try to fix this issue by reading other books that i think i would enjoy reading. Currently I am reading a book on how to read a book and it is really helping a lot on my understanding and reading leves.
msbhieng- august2009 - Aug 28, 2009
hi..i found your article 100% true.. i am an English high school teacher here in the Philippines and comprehending with what the students had read is the hardest thing to make sure of..the problem lies on the ability of the students to extract the meaning of the words used on a certain text they were told to read...i am at the sunrise of my thesis work and reading comprehension is the topic that interest mhe the most.
continue coming up with articles about or even just related to reading comprehension...
THANK YOU..=)
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