STRATEGIES COMPREHENSION THE TEXT

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• These are very important for reading and comprehension. These are conscious plans, sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text

1. MONITORING COMPREHENSION

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   •  The students understand what they read and when they do not. They have strategies to "fix" problems in their understanding as the problems arise
   1. what they do understand
   2. what they do not understand
   3. Use strategies to resolve problems
2. Metacognition

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   • They think about and have control over their reading
   1. Identify where difficulty occurs
   2. Identify what the difficulty is
   3. Restate sentence with their own words
   4. Re-read the text
   5. Look forward in the text important ifomation
3. Graphic and semantic organizers

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   •  Illustrate concepts and relation ships between concepts in a text or using diagrams. The graphic organizers can help readers focus on concepts and how they are related to other concepts
   1. Venn-Diagrams
   2. Storyboard/Chain of Events
   3. Story Map
   4. Cause/Effect
4. Answering questions

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   • The questions help to students to identify a purpose for reading and focus students' attention.
   1. Think and Search
   2. Right There
   3. Author and You
   4. On Your Own
5. Generating questions

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   • Students learn to ask themselves questions that require them to combine information from different segments of text
6. Recognizing story structure

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   • The  students learn to identify the categories of content (characters, setting, events, problem, resolution)
7. Summarizing

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   • Requires students to determine what is important in what they are reading and to put it into their own words
   1. Identify or generate main ideas
   2. Connect the main or central ideas
   3. Eliminate unnecessary information
   4. Remember what they read