Enhancing Reading Comprehension Skills: Strategies and Importance
Improve your child's reading comprehension with strategies like building prior knowledge, making predictions, and understanding vocabulary in context. These techniques are essential for deep understanding of texts and effective communication. Enhance your child's ability to connect with the world through reading.
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What is comprehension? This refers to the understanding of a text. There are cases of where children are able to read thanks to secure phonics knowledge and the ability to decode but do not understand what they have read.
How do we teach comprehension at QEGS and to support with the Y6 SATS ..
Prior knowledge How can you help to widen your child s view of the world.. Reading and comprehension is all about making connections. Text to self To develop these connections, children need to: Text to world Read a varied diet of texts Discuss their life experiences Text to text Research and learn about lots of different topics Readers who have a strong knowledge of a particular topic, both in terms of quantity and quality of knowledge, are more able to comprehend a text than a similarly cohesive text for which they lack background knowledge.
Prediction Why is this important? Predict what has or what will happen based on information stated or inferred (linked closely to inference). Again, background knowledge here is important. Esther snatched the note from Olive and ran towards the classroom door. What do you predict Esther Jenkins is going to do? What evidence have you used to make your prediction?
Mrs Collins woke up with a terrible headache and severe cough. She picked up her mobile and began to dial. Who do you think Mrs Collins is going to call? Why? Predictions, like inferences are neither right or wrong, they may be strong (with secure evidence to back them up) or weak (with little or poor evidence to back them up).
Vocabulary Interpreting words in context and deciphering the meaning of words unknown based on the context they are written. Mr. Jones loathes wearing a tie as he finds it uncomfortable. We may not know the meaning of the word loathe here but based on the context and other evidence within the sentence, we can guess it means doesn t like .
Questionning Retrieval of information is often the starting point for discussing a text. This means picking the exact (spelling and punctuation too) information out of the text that they have just read. E.g. What was the character s name? What did they eat for dinner? What colour was the car? What time did
Inference: is an interpretation that goes beyond the literal information given and relies on the evidence within the text as well as background knowledge. The police find a threatening letter addressed to the victim. We could infer that someone didn t like that person.
The bike lay on the floor next to her as she held her leg and cried. We could infer that the girl fell off her bike. My stomach rumbled as the smell of dinner wafted from the kitchen. We could infer that this person is hungry.
Summarising Summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph What is the main point of the first paragraph? What heading would be appropriate for this paragraph?
How to answer a 3-mark question with evidence from the text What impression do you get of Esther Jenkins? Point I get the impression that Esther Jenkins is mean, unkind and a bit of a bully Evidence I know this because it says in the text, She was holding Cliff s comic high above her head. It annoyed me that she d taken it without asking. Explanation This tells me that Esther is not a very kind person and enjoys making fun of others. The children were all being evacuated at the same time and many of them were upset and anxious. Esther should have been more considerate of this in the way that she was treating other people.
Sats Comprehension example questions
Gaby to the Rescue 2017 Sats Reading paper
A Siamese cat crouched on a tree branch, peering down at Gaby with brilliant blue eyes. Which word is closest in meaning to crouched? balanced squatted trembled pounced
Look at the first paragraph, beginning: A Siamese cat... Gaby pulled the cardigan tighter around her. Why does Gaby do this? She is thinking of wrapping the cat in her cardigan. She is worried about damaging the cardigan. She is feeling cold. She is worried the cardigan will be difficult to climb in.
Why had Gaby climbed the tree the previous summer?
Look at the paragraph beginning: She knew the universal rule... What does the word universal tell you about the rule?
Number the following events 1 5 to show the order in which they happened. The first one has been done for you. Gaby breaks the universal rule of tree climbing. Gaby notices the cat. 1 Gaby tries to pick up the cat. Gaby remembers the water-balloon fight. Gaby takes her cardigan off
An Encounter at sea 2017 Sats Reading paper
Look at the paragraph beginning: Carefully, Michael leaned What does this paragraph tell you about Michael s character? Explain two features of his character, using evidence from the text to support your answer.
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