Vocab 2: Reading Comprehension
As we become better readers, it's good to be aware of strategies we use. We may use some of these strategies without being aware that we do so, while others take a little more practice.
Think about which strategies you could use more often to improve your reading comprehension.
Think about which strategies you could use more often to improve your reading comprehension.
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- arduous
- difficult to accomplish; requiring a great deal of effort or energy
- comprehend
- to understand the meaning of
- paraphrase
- put what you've read into your own words without changing the meaning
- text to text
- connect the text to another text, movie, TV show, poem, etc.
- loquacious
- talkative; quite chatty
- predict
- think about what will happen next; anticipate what the chapter will be about
- text to self
- connect the text to yourself
- visualize
- form pictures in your mind to help you see what's happening in the text
- text to world
- connect text to historical or current events in our world
- question
- search for reasons behind events, feelings, etc., ask why . . . ?
- connect
- make personal connections with the text
- strategy
- a plan or method used to reach a specific goal or result
- clarify
- stop occassionally to reread and review text and check your understanding
- evaluate
- form opinions about what you read (during and after reading)