Reading+Comprehension



It is very important that children not only be able to read a text but they must also be able to understand or comprehend what it is they are reading about. Comprehension consists of understanding the meaning of what has been read by either the print, illustrations, layout and design. Comprehension may involve making a metal image of something in order to understand it and you might be doing that right now but it has become so second nature to you that you don't even realise that you are doing it. There are several ways in which teachers can test a students comprehesion of a particular text whether it be a simple conversation with the student about what they thought had happened and what there interperatation was or something else like some sort of quiz in regaurd to the text to see just how well a student has comprehended. Another example of testing ones comprehension was a process that was used when i was in school and that was to read up to a certain chapter of a text and then before going on we would have to create our own ending to the text. It was a good way of determaining just how well students had understood the first part to the text. Here is a link to a site which contains many different short stories which at the end of them contain a worksheet with many questions about the story. Questions such as how did someone feel, what was a particular character wearing, where were they going, how did they get there and so on.

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/reading_comprehension/grades_24/fictional/