Reading Comprehension Concepts

Reading Comprehension Concepts

According to Mayer.(2010) that Reading comprehension is understanding a text that is read, or the process of "constructing meaning" from a text. It can be concluded that reading comprehension is the reading process working together as a text is read to create a representation of the text in the reader's mind.

There are several strategies for teaching comprehension. But, Mayer is going to focus on three strategies.

·         Making connection

Readers make connections between books they read to their own lives. Readers can make these connections with what they read to their lives.

·         Questioning

Questions are the key to understanding. They take us into understanding. Students need to feel that their questions are important.

·         Visualizing and Inferring

Visualizing is creating pictures in our minds. When students visualize, they create their 'own movie' in their minds. Teachers can use picture books that do not have words to help the students make their mental movies.

 Inferring is being able to read body languages and expressions while reading the text. To help the students find inferrences in picture books is to focus on the illustrations. The pictures give clues to help gain meaning.

Adopted from:

Mayer.(2010). Reading comprehension. Retrieved from: http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Reading_comprehension. accessed on: April, 26th 2012