Reading+Comprehension

=__**Reading comprehension:**__=

Reading comprehension is to understand the text that you are reading, that is, associate words with meaning and thought processes. ‘Reading comprehension is the act of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning from text.’ (Hill, S 2006). By having students make predictions and recollections about a text, assists the students in forming thought processes involved in reading comprehension and also allows the teacher to know what level students are at with reading comprehension. When reading a text ask students questions about the characters, objects and locations, to encourage the students to picture what is happening. ‘Encourage children to make images in their mind about how the characters feel - for example the wolf, or the three pigs. They can imagine what could happen next.’ (Hill, S 2006). Reading comprehension is a very important part of learning to read and can easily be overlooked or misjudged. If children don’t understand what is happening in a text and can’t put words to thought, then they will find reading and writing much harder then those who have good reading comprehension. The following link goes to an American web page, and it lists several ways for teachers to improve children's reading comprehension. http://www.ciera.org/library/instresrc/compprinciples/index.html