| Comprehension is the capability of understanding something |
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 | A struggling reader has difficulty decoding words. Can not understand the meaning of words because of a lack of vocabulary and background knowledge. This results in the inability to comprehend the text. However, research has shown that some struggling readers have learn strategies to help them comprehend text even when they are a slow reader. | |
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| OH! tell me more about these strategies! | |
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| A few reading strategies are DRTA. It means Directed Reading/Thinking Activity. It can be a prediction using text features. Teaching the reader to observe before reading and predict. Then while reading think and change that prediction or tell why it was incorrect or correct | |
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| Nice are there more? | |
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| Yes! Another strategy would be finding key details to support the main idea. This gets the reader to find the most important parts of the text. | |
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| So you're telling me that the teacher instructs and models this and the students then learn to do it independently and they become good readers! | |
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