Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension is one of the areas of educational research that has been around the longest. It continues to be an area of weakness for students and therefore an area of study for current examination. Several independent skills are required before students are able to successfully complete the complex process of reading comprehension. Skills listed in the research include decoding skills and word recognition, auditory processing, prior knowledge and vocabulary development (McClintock,…

cognitive development each child possesses. One of the difficulties that children face is reading comprehension. As reading is the foundation for all learning it is vital that comprehension is mastered. According to the research findings by “National Reading Panel” in 2000, which concluded that the “five pillars” of reading are core. They are phonemic awareness; vocabulary, phonics, fluency and comprehension are crucial for all learning. What is worth noticing is the full range of varying…

recommended Comprehension strategies: Bridges to strategic reading by Tanny McGregor. This book focused on providing students with concrete ways to understand reading comprehension and how best to apply what they have learned to their reading. McGregor (2007) focused on metacognition, building schema, inferring, questioning, main idea, visualizing and synthesizing. All of this she does with hands on, concrete examples to help students understand the new concept before she applies it to their…

As many teachers search for new strategies and interventions to address the lack of fluency within their reading programs, Repeated Reading (RR) appears to be a topic of curiosity. RR is an evident based strategy designed to increase reading fluency and comprehension through the development of automatic word processing and contextualized linguistic effect (Winter, 2007). Similar to the text features on a cell phone, automatic word processing is the ability to detect and comprehend a word…

INTRODUCTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION Reading skill is a complex skill which has to be taught from earlier education as a second language in our country. English also one of major subject in school. A student should be able to read and understand English to be successful in other subject such as science and math. However, there are various purposes and goals for teaching and learning English. As for reading, there are also various purposes and goals for students to master it. A comprehension text…

Word Identification As suggested by the Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 administrator’s manual instructions, the first grade word list was administered, to determine the instructional reading level to establish a starting point on the reading assessment. The QRI-4 guideline suggested Addison begin reading the word lists at the first grade level of the QRI-4, two levels below her current grade level. Addison completed the first grade word list automatically with 100% accuracy, in the allotted…

modern world English is the language of commerce, education and diplomacy, so, reading in this language considered as an important skill for those who learn it as their second or foreign language. Reading can be viewed as an interactive process between a reader and a text, in this process the reader dynamically interacts with the text and tries to encode the meaning and gets the writer intended meaning. Reading comprehension by the researchers can be considered as an outcome of text processing…

I grew up with the love of reading because I was able to escape from the world I lived in. Books were where I went to get away from the abuse and violence I lived with. I would open up a book and my mind was instantly connected to the materials and I was no longer in my room, I was in the book, and as I continued to read the story, the scenes and characters came alive for me. Reading was amazing and I couldn’t get enough of it. Reading comprehension is vital to a student’s success in school. I…

High 5! Comprehension Strategy One particular reading strategy that incorporates all three types of pre-reading, during reading, and post reading strategies is the High 5! Comprehension Strategy. There are five steps in the High 5! Comprehension strategy. The five steps are: 1) activating background knowledge; 2) questioning; 3) analyzing text structure; 4) create mental images; and 5) summarizing. The best way to teach The High5! Comprehension Strategy is through explicit instruction. Explicit…

Different types of inferences: What are inferences used for? Whether experimental or review in purpose, most studies have laid out meticulously detailed analyses of the types of inference that exist in their authors’ view of comprehension. The literature has been prolific in distinguishing various types and categories of inference, ranging from thirteen, described in Graesser et al. (1994), nine in Pressley and Afflerbach (1995), to the more usual two, adopted by many more researchers. Even…