Reading Comprehension

1. Reading Comprehension
Navleen Multani

2. COMPREHENSION
 ‘essence of reading’
 Ability to read text, understand, comprehend
 Make inference
 Intentional, interactive, active
 Complex thinking process
 Construct meaning

3. COMPREHENSION
SKILLS
 Appreciation : critique, appraise, comment,
appreciate
 Evaluation : analyse, evaluate, justify, criticise,
judge
 Inferential Comprehension : predict, infer, guess
 Reorganisation : classify, rearrange, assemble,
collect
 Literal Comprehension : relate, recall, label, list

4. Reading Skills
 Reading the lines : literal, meaning of words,
phrases, sentences
 Reading between the lines : implied meaning,
intentional meaning
 Reading beyond the lines : insights , critical
meaning

5. Levels of Comprehension
 Literal : facts, details, rote learning, reading
passages, surface understanding
 Interpretative : reading between lines, implied
meaning, inferences, intent of author
 Applied : understanding literal and interpretative,
draw insights, develop new ideas, critical reading,
analyzing, synthesizing

6.  CLOSED QUESTIONS
 OPEN QUESTIONS
 READ

7. The Procedure
 Read, comprehend, question
 Active readers evaluate the text
and integrate meaning with prior
knowledge
 Summarize; Note-Making
 Important details to be focussed

8.  Delete unnecessary details and
redundant material
 Compose words, replace list of
items/individual parts with
substitutes
 Select topic sentence/invent
sentence

9.  Think aloud, identify with characters/text
 Construct images/themes
 Read for multiple meanings
 Predict literal meaning using prior knowledge
 Clarify, analyze perspective
 Story analysis: relate to another text
 Text Structure : respond to text features
 Summarize ; Attempt

10. Read
Comprehend
 HAPPY READING