Reading Comprehension Strategies:
3 Strategies To Enhance Your
Reading And Learning
Comprehension
Michael Lee
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Teachers often use different reading
comprehension strategies to help their
students understand the lesson for the
day.

These techniques can either be direct or
indirect depending on the kind of
pupils in the class. Some of them are
even disguised as games to keep
everybody interested.

Reading comprehension strategies help a
lot in developing your vocabulary and
powers of analysis. Here are some ways
you might want to try out for yourself.

1) Role-playing

One of the most entertaining reading
comprehension strategies is role-
playing. It allows you to gain a better
perspective over the text you have just
read.

Role-playing also gives you the freedom
and flexibility to showcase your own
interpretation of the reading material.

However, this kind of strategy does not
apply to all texts. It would be
challenging for someone to role-play a
text discussing the dissection of frogs,
wouldn’t it?

I suggest this reading comprehension
strategy be limited to texts with actual
characters and story plots.

2) Question and Answer

After you read a text, it is important to
check whether you have understood the
material. A lot of teachers like to hold
question and answer portions at the
end of the lesson to see how much a
student actually remembers and
understands.

These questions should be both closed
and open-ended. Closed questions are
those immediately answerable by “yes”
or “no.” This will give the teacher a
quick assessment of how much the
student has gathered from the lesson.

Open-ended questions, on the other
hand, are an excellent gauge of the
student’s reading comprehension.
Questions that begin with “how” and
“why” often push the student to
elaborate.

3) Making Connections

One of the most effective reading
comprehension strategies involves
making use of prior knowledge or
experience. By tapping into what you
already know, you can make it easier to
relate to what you’re reading now.

In a way, you’re using prior information
or past experience as a stepping stone
or a foundation for future lessons. This
strategy requires you to be up-to-date
as well.

Or at least, be a quick thinker. After all,
you’re expected to take advantage of
any opportunity you have to tie one
idea to another.

These reading comprehension strategies
have served a lot of readers well. Find
the one that matches your own
personality to make it even more
effective. With these strategies, you’ll
be able to learn better and help others
as well.

Presentation By:
Michael Lee
Persuasion Expert and Author
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