Reading Comprehension
Some principal strategies for reading comprehension
- Identify your purpose in reading a text.
- Apply spelling rules and conventions for bottom-up decoding.
- Use lexical analysis (prefixes, roots, suffixes, etc.) to determine meaning.
- Guess at meaning (of words, idioms, etc.) when you aren’t certain.
- Skim the text for the gist and for main ideas.
- Scan the text for specific information (names, dates, key words).
- Use silent reading techniques for rapid processing.
- Use marginal notes, outlines, charts, or semantic maps for understanding and retaining information.
- Distinguish between literal and implied meanings.
- Capitalize on discourse markers to process relationships.