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Reading Comprehension - Can it be taught online? November 28th, 2006

 

Reading comprehension is the culmination of a number of skills.  To comprehend text, you must first have:
Phonics skills - Which in turn requires having mastered some prereading skills including phonemic awareness.
Vocabulary skills -
Fluency skills - Meaning that you have mastered the dolche words so that you aren’t trying to sound out the common words which frequently, can’t be decoded thru phonic skills at all.
Reading Comprehension skills separates the “passive” unskilled reader from the “active” readers. Skilled readers don’t just read, they interact with the text. To help a beginning reader understand this concept, you might make them privy to the dialogue readers have with themselves while reading.
Skilled readers, for instance:
  1. Predict what will happen next in a story using clues presented in text
  2. Create questions about the main idea, message, or plot of the text
  3. Monitor understanding of the sequence, context, or characters
  4. Clarify parts of the text which have confused them
  5. Connect the events in the text to prior knowledge or experience

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