Monitoring Comprehension

Visualizing

• Creating pictures in your head can help you determine what an author or poet is describing.

• Reading without understanding the context.

• Memorizing text without comprehension.

• Ignoring the imagery in literature.

Rereading

• A strategy to read a text for the first time

• A comprehension strategy that involves reading a sentence, paragraph, or section of text again if a reader initially did not understand it

• A method to summarize a text after reading it once

• A technique to memorize text without understanding it

Annotating

• the practice of highlighting and writing down notes about a text directly on the text itself

• the act of summarizing a text in one's own words

• the process of reading a text silently without taking notes

• the technique of memorizing a text by repetition

reading comprehension

• the ability to understand what you are reading

• the skill of memorizing text

• the process of skimming through pages

• the act of reading aloud to others

Monitoring comprehension

• A strategy in which a reader pays attention to the parts of a text he or she does and does not understand

• A method for summarizing a text after reading

• A technique for skimming through a text quickly

• A way to memorize the text without understanding it

Setting a Purpose for Reading

• Establishing a reason for reading can enhance engagement with the text.

• Reading without a purpose leads to better comprehension.

• Setting a purpose is only important for fiction texts.

• Engagement in reading is solely based on the length of the text.

Making and confirming predictions

• Making and confirming predictions allows you to keep track of characters and events as a story’s plot develops.

• Making predictions is only useful for scientific experiments.

• Confirming predictions is not necessary for understanding a story.

• Making predictions can be done without any context.

Generating questions

• Asking questions only after reading helps improve comprehension.

• Asking questions before, during, and after reading allows you to identify areas where comprehension can be improved.

• Asking questions during reading is not necessary for comprehension.

• Asking questions before reading is sufficient for acquiring useful information.