Understanding different levels of Reading Comprehension

1. The reader finds the answer in the text

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• Interpretive

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The reader make links between the text and his or her own experience and knowledge to develop an answer.

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• Interpretive

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The reader asks open-ended questions to promote deeper understanding.

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• Interpretive

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The reader starts to predicts and anticipate consequences.

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• Interpretive

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The reader can identify the main idea of the text

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• Interpretive

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The reader recall details that support main ideas.

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• Interpretive

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The reader can make comparisons, judgements, recommendations and suggestion as well as creating alternative endings.

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• Interpretive

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The reader sequentially organized the main events.

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• Interpretive

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The reader knows how to generalize and summarize the story.

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• Interpretive

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Level of reading comprehension where the reader starts to ask questions like ( How would you ? Do you agree ? What would've happened if .... ? )

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• Interpretive

• Applied