This document discusses different levels of comprehension when reading: literal comprehension involves recalling facts while interpretative comprehension involves inferring implied meanings, drawing conclusions, and reading between the lines. It provides examples of interpretative comprehension skills like making inferences, stating reasons for events, and answering interpretative questions that require going beyond just restating literal details. The document emphasizes that leveled reading helps readers build comprehension skills step-by-step from literal to interpretative understanding.

1. INTERPRETATIVE
COMPREHENSION
By Dianna May C. Macapulay

7. RECALL..
LITERAL- what is actually stated
 Facts and details
 Rote learning and memorization
 Surface understanding only
COMMON QUESTIONS:
who, what, when, where

8. WHY LEVELED READING IS IMPORTANT?

9. LEVELED READING helps readers to
go beyond the surface of a text in a
step- by- step way

10. WHAT IS COMPREHENSION?

11. In reading, the ability to
understand what is read;
may be assessed via oral or
silent reading

12. INTERPRETATIVE- what is implied or meant, rather
than what is actually stated.
* Drawing inferences
* State reasons for events
*Make generalizations
* Reading between the lines to determine what
is meant by what is stated

13. DRAWING INFERENCES
Inferences are evidence- based guesses. They
are the conclusions a reader draws about the
unsaid based on what is actually said.
e.g.,
If your best friend comes in from a blind date
and looks utterly miserable, what would you
probably guess?

14. INFERENCE:
You would probably infer
the date was not a success.

15. Directions: For each situation, draw what you think is
an appropriate inference.
1. You have just gotten a pit bull from an animal
shelter. He’s lovable but nervous. If you raise your
voice for any reason, he cowers and trembles. If
scold him, he hides. When you got him from the
shelter, he had a slight limp and a deep scratch
across his nose.
INFERENCE (max. 2 sentences):

16. 2. You are a college student sitting in class when a
substitute teacher walks in and announces that your
regular teacher is ill. Everyone in the class including
erupts in applause. The substitute raps his knuckles on
the desk for order, but the students ignore him and
louder.
INFERENCE (max. 2 sentences):

48. INTERPRETATIVE QUESTIONS:
1. How do you think Cinderella felt about her name?
(2 sentences)
2. Why was Cinderella treated unkindly? (2
sentences)
3. Can you explain the stereotypes in the story of
Cinderella? (3 sentences)
4. What’s the moral of the story? (1 sentence)

49. THANK YOU!