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What is comprehension?
What is comprehension?
Comprehension is more than just being able to retell what happened in the story. Comprehension involves making connections to what a student already knows along with deeper thinking. Comprehension is helped when students develop strong oral language skills including the development of vocabulary, background knowledge, appropriate grammar, the ability to reason and infer, and an understanding of how print works (genres, text structures, etc.). Having conversations with your child helps to develop these skills. Our goal is to have students finish reading with new knowledge and ideas rather than to just have them declare, "I'm done!"
Being able to summarize what was read is a more complex skill than what you might believe. Students must decide what is important to remember. Find strategies here for fiction and nonfiction text.
Reading a story can be overwhelming. What should I remember? Where should my focus be? The signposts of Notice and Note help students to determine importance and think deeply about the text.
Nonfiction can be even more frustrating to think about without a focus. When reading nonfiction, there are three questions to keep in mind in addition to thinking about signposts. Not only does this help in understanding, but it also helps to see if the author has a particular bias.
Being able to infer is an important skill in reading as well as in life. This section explains inference in more detail.
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