Reading Comprehension Strategies

Reading Comprehension

• Types of Reading Comprehension:
  • Literal Comprehension: understanding the literal meaning of the text
  • Inferential Comprehension: making inferences based on the text
  • Evaluative Comprehension: evaluating the text and making judgments
• Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension:
  1. Active reading: engaging with the text by asking questions, making connections, and summarizing
  2. Visualizing: creating mental images to aid understanding
  3. Making inferences: using context clues to make conclusions
• Common Reading Comprehension Questions:
  • Main idea questions: identifying the central idea of the text
  • Supporting detail questions: identifying specific details that support the main idea
  • Inference questions: making inferences based on the text

Grammar

• Parts of Speech:
  • Nouns: people, places, things, and ideas
  • Verbs: actions or states of being
  • Adjectives: describing words that modify nouns or pronouns
  • Adverbs: describing words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
  • Pronouns: replacing nouns in a sentence
  • Prepositions: showing relationships between words
  • Conjunctions: connecting words, phrases, or clauses
  • Interjections: expressing emotion or feeling
• Verb Tenses:
  • Present Tense: actions that happen regularly or are true in general
  • Past Tense: actions that happened in the past
  • Future Tense: actions that will happen in the future
• Clause Structure:
  • Independent Clauses: complete sentences with a subject and verb
  • Dependent Clauses: clauses that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence
  • Relative Clauses: clauses that provide additional information about a noun

Reading Comprehension

• Types of reading comprehension:
  • Literal Comprehension: understanding the exact meaning of the text
  • Inferential Comprehension: making deductions based on the text
  • Evaluative Comprehension: assessing the text and making judgments

Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

• Active reading: engaging with the text by asking questions, making connections, and summarizing
• Visualizing: creating mental images to aid understanding
• Making inferences: using context clues to make conclusions

Common Reading Comprehension Questions

• Main idea questions: identifying the central idea of the text
• Supporting detail questions: identifying specific details that support the main idea
• Inference questions: making inferences based on the text

Grammar

Parts of Speech

• Nouns: represent people, places, things, and ideas
• Verbs: represent actions or states of being
• Adjectives: describe nouns or pronouns
• Adverbs: describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
• Pronouns: replace nouns in a sentence
• Prepositions: show relationships between words
• Conjunctions: connect words, phrases, or clauses
• Interjections: express emotion or feeling

Verb Tenses

• Present Tense: actions that happen regularly or are true in general
• Past Tense: actions that happened in the past
• Future Tense: actions that will happen in the future

Clause Structure

• Independent Clauses: complete sentences with a subject and verb
• Dependent Clauses: clauses that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence
• Relative Clauses: clauses that provide additional information about a noun