The document discusses reading comprehension and the difference between reading individual words and comprehending full sentences or texts. It notes that a nonsense sentence containing real words like "Banana blue tree happy sing" demonstrates how one can understand each word separately but the sentence makes no sense as a whole. It defines reading comprehension as understanding what one reads through an interactive process before, during and after reading. Comprehension requires understanding both the vocabulary used and having background knowledge - if the individual words are not comprehended, the overall meaning of the text will be lost.

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2. • Banana blue tree happy sing. Surely you were
able to read each of the words in that sentence
and understand what they meant
independently. A banana isa fruit that is yellow.
Blue is a color…and so on and so forth.
However, when you look at the sentence as a
whole, does it make sense? Probably not. This
nonsense sentence demonstrates the difference
between being able to read words and
comprehend text
• Banana blue tree happy sing. Surely you were
able to read each of the words in that sentence
and understand what they meant
independently. A banana isa fruit that is yellow.
Blue is a color…and so on and so forth.
However, when you look at the sentence as a
whole, does it make sense? Probably not. This
nonsense sentence demonstrates the difference
between being able to read words and
comprehend text

3. • Reading comprehension is the act of
understanding what you are reading.
Reading comprehension is an
intentional, active, interactive
• process that occurs before, during
and after a person reads a particular
piece of writing.
• Reading comprehension is the act of
understanding what you are reading.
Reading comprehension is an
intentional, active, interactive
• process that occurs before, during
and after a person reads a particular
piece of writing.

4. There are two elements that make up
the process of reading comprehension:
vocabulary, knowledge and text
comprehension. In order to
understand a text the reader must be
able to comprehend the vocabulary
used in the piece of writing. If the
individual words don’t make the sense
then the overall story will not either.
There are two elements that make up
the process of reading comprehension:
vocabulary, knowledge and text
comprehension. In order to
understand a text the reader must be
able to comprehend the vocabulary
used in the piece of writing. If the
individual words don’t make the sense
then the overall story will not either.

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