Comprehension strategies:
Edgar Dale says; that 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see 50% of what we see and hear, and 70% of what we talk about with others.
Devoogd (2022) elaborated that there are different strategies that students can use each of them based on their own strengths in order to comprehend and remember the context well.
1. Take a look at the whole reading first and decide what questions you have or what you want to remember from this text.
2. Evaluate your comprehension. For example; as you are reading, ask yourself, are you understanding? If not, use another strategy.
3. Visualize what you think is happening in the text.
4. Summarize the ideas in the text.
5. Predict what you expect will happen or what the text is about.
6. Read over again the passage title sentence, paragraph, or text.
7. Figure out unknown words by:
Looking them up on the computer/phone;
Reread the sentence and guess what the word means;
Ask a friend.
8. Examine the picture (if there are pictures).
9. Talk with a friend about the ideas in the text.
10. Write down ideas you want to remember.
11. Connect the ideas in the text with your life.
12. Critical literacy - Identify the underlying values or bias of the text. What is favored? What is marginalized? What are other perspectives? What will you do about it?
13. Criticize the text: the plot, characters, setting, theme, or the information in the text.
14. Create your own text using similar strategies as the author of the text.
Teachers cannot induce students to comprehend, while they need to be engrossed to want to understand. Teachers can apply the below activities in order to have an interactive reading (Devoogd, 2022).
Best Practices: High School, (Fairfax Network - Fairfax County Public Schools, 2013).
Guided Reading Process, (Devoogd, 2022)
Comprehension Strategies are still at the works
Keene and Zimmermann (2013) in their research “Years Later, Comprehension Strategies Still at Work. The Reading Teacher” infer that an important method for developing comprehension instruction is reading, reflecting, and discussing our reactions and perceptions with others. They provided many helpful instructions to boost learners’ comprehension.
Teachers are required to read extensively and monitor their own thinking processes to teach comprehension effectively.
Reading, reflecting, and discussing reactions and insights with others is a prominent technique that teachers should apply in their classrooms. It shows the power of conversation in advancing the comprehension skills of students
When students share their idea, indeed one thought can lead to another thought and cause to dig deeper, and see things through others' perspectives which make us understand them differently.
Comprehension strategies help children build content area knowledge. Children are more likely to retain and reapply what they learn when they are metacognitive” (Keene & Zimmermann, 2013).
The visual aspect of the comprehension strategies is that they give teachers a means to make visible the thinking that goes on in the minds of good readers. They lead to vibrant classroom discussions in which students “own” the thinking.
Reading Comprehension Strategies in the Classroom, (Language & Working Memory Lab, 2018)
Reading Comprehension: Tips and Strategies for Parents, (Schenectady City School District, 2012)