Comprehension is the experience that the reader has with the text. It is essentially what the reader is able to take away or learn from what they're reading. Durkin (1993) has been often quoted as saying that comprehension is "the essence of reading." Without comprehension, a student gains nothing from the reading that he/she does.
How do I assess it?
- Ongoing, informal assessments by individual teachers
- Student retellings/Summaries
- Student think-alouds
- Open-ended questions
- Maze CBM
- Multiple-choice tests/questions
- Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests (Normative Update)
Activities/Resources
- Teaching Reading Sourcebook by CORE
- Journals (Have a student respond to/process what they read)
- Discussion (pair share/class discussion)
- Explicitly Teach Comprehension Strategies
- CORI Template
- The Effects of Strategy Instruction on the Comprehension Performance of At-Risk Students
- Comprehension Strategies: What Are They?
- Ideas for Teaching Comprehension Strategies
- Determining Importance in Text: The Nonfiction Connection
- The So What? of Reading Comprehension
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