Task 9 Subject-specific Teaching Methods (Elementary)

Running Head : Reading Comprehension Strategies

Reading Comprehension Strategies

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The National Reading Panel 's (NLP ) report , Putting Reading First the Research Building Blocks of Reading Instruction ' analyzed five areas of reading instruction : phonemic awareness , phonics , fluency vocabulary and text comprehension

Experts believe that effective text comprehension is intentional thinking during which meaning is constructed through interactions between text and reader (Text Comprehension , n .d . Studies reveal that text comprehension is improved when students are

able to actively relate ideas from text to their own knowledge and experiences . The NLP report identified six research-based strategies that can help improve the text comprehension of elementary students in the United States . The six strategies aim to help students to become not only active readers but in control of their reading comprehension . Text comprehension can be improved by emphasizing instruction which helps students use specific comprehension strategies . These six scientifically-based comprehension strategies are monitoring comprehension , using graphic and semantic organizers , answering questions , generating questions , recognizing story structure , and summarizing

Comprehension monitoring can help students know what they understand and what they do not understand . This is achieved by identifying difficult areas in reading . Graphic and semantic organizers are used by teachers to illustrate concepts to their students . Graphic organizers can also help students focus on concepts . Some of graphic organizers that can be used by teachers include maps , graphs and charts

Teachers also used questioning to help...