Reading comprehension involves actively understanding what is read through processes that occur before, during, and after reading. It requires using awareness of language sounds and structure to comprehend meaning from texts. Strategies for improving comprehension include monitoring understanding, using graphic organizers, answering and generating questions, and summarizing. Paraphrasing is restating someone else's ideas or message in one's own words while maintaining the original meaning. To paraphrase a quote, one must understand the quote, restate its main ideas without copying the exact words, and properly cite the source.

1. READING COMPREHENSION

2. What Is Reading
Comprehension?
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Reading Comprehension is the act of understanding what you
are reading. While the definition can be simply stated the act is
not simple to teach, learn or practice. Reading comprehension
is an intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before,
during and after a person reads a particular piece of writing.
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Reading Comprehension is one of the pillars of the act of
reading. When a person reads a text he engages in a complex
array of cognitive processes. He is simultaneously using his
awareness and understanding of phonemes (individual sound
“pieces” in language), phonics (connection between letters and
sounds and the relationship between sounds, letters and words)
and ability to comprehend or construct meaning from the text.
This last component of the act of reading is reading
comprehension.

3. Strategies For Reading
Comprehension
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Monitoring comprehension
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Metacognition
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Graphic and semantic organizers
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Answering questions
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Generating questions
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Recognizing story structure
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Summarizing

4. PARAPHRASING

5. Definition Of Paraphrasing
We've all watched television shows or heard news stories we wanted to
tell others about. We may have told our friends, our family, or our
coworkers about what happened, how it happened, and why it happened.
We recounted the storyline, the main characters, the events, and
important points using our own words. This is Paraphrasing - using your
own words to express someone else's message or ideas. In a paraphrase,
the ideas and meaning of the original source must be maintained; the
main ideas need to come through, but the wording has to be your own.
Examples
Paraphrasing can be done with individual sentences or entire paragraphs.
Here are some examples.
Original sentence:
Her life spanned years of incredible change for women.
Paraphrased sentence:
Mary lived through an era of liberating reform for women.

6. How To Paraphrase Quoted Material?
Paraphrasing is a useful way to provide support for your ideas by stating
important information from a source in your own words. Paraphrasing can
be tricky, because you need to keep the original thrust of the argument or
point without copying the words directly. If you want to know how to
paraphrase, you just have to read the original quote, find your own way of
presenting the main ideas in the quote, and cite your sources correctly. If
you want to know how to paraphrase quoted material, just follow these
easy steps.
Three Methods:
Understand Paraphrasing
Paraphrase the Quote
Cite the Quote

7. How To Paraphrase Quoted Material?
Paraphrasing is a useful way to provide support for your ideas by stating
important information from a source in your own words. Paraphrasing can
be tricky, because you need to keep the original thrust of the argument or
point without copying the words directly. If you want to know how to
paraphrase, you just have to read the original quote, find your own way of
presenting the main ideas in the quote, and cite your sources correctly. If
you want to know how to paraphrase quoted material, just follow these
easy steps.
Three Methods:
Understand Paraphrasing
Paraphrase the Quote
Cite the Quote