OVERVIEW
In this topic, we will understand how to understand reading comprehension, and the methods to solve it. Here we will see various strategies to solve reading comprehension. So, let us start with the meaning of reading comprehension.
READING COMPREHENSION
Reading comprehension is a way of understanding the paragraph to understand its meaning. This understanding comes from the interaction of words through which we can understand the text they convey. If there is a difficult word within the comprehension, students take a long time to solve the question or it also triggers their recognizing ability. To reduce such difficulties there are numerous ways to improve which include, getting command of your vocabulary through which you will easily get to know the meaning of the comprehension, and secondly, making your reading efficiency faster with understanding too. Some people get the meaning easily by their learning from education, instruction, or by their own experience. Sometimes reading effectively helps to understand the text quickly because the strong reader thinks actively as they read actively and frequently.
PURPOSE
The purpose of reading comprehension is to enhance your ability in various things like vocabulary, and understanding the core meaning of comprehension, and the last one is to enhance your knowledge for the same.
STRATEGIES
Now let us see what strategies we can make to solve and easily understand comprehension in various manners. Let us see in brief.
- Need to make connections: in this when we read the passage the most important thing is to make connections within the whole passage, it will help to understand it better.
- Ask question: when you are reading comprehension you must ask a question to the word through which you will get the core meaning of the passage.
- Do visualize: by doing visualization you will take yourself at the part of the author then you will also get help to understand the text.
- Important thing: when you understand the importance of the text you can easily solve the question of comprehension.
Through all these processes you will easily solve the questions given in the passage.
TYPES OF READING COMPREHENSION
There are different types of comprehension, let us see what they are in brief.
Lexical comprehension:
In this kind of comprehension, you will always see that the question is based on the vocab which includes words and phrases.
For eg. In this passage, the word refers to which _____ phrase.
Universal comprehension:
In this kind of reading comprehension, you will ask questions in which the picture of the entire passage comes as a whole passage.
For example, what is the core meaning of this passage?
Specific and literal comprehension:
This kind of reading comprehension always states detailed questions from the passage, and the correct answers to the question are always paraphrased directly in the comprehension.
For example, what is _____ according to the author?
Interpretive comprehension:
This kind of reading comprehension generally asks questions based on your understanding of the comprehension, which is generally not given in the passage.
For example,
By reading the passage, what is the meaning of the author?
Applied comprehension:
This kind of reading comprehension refers to the process of interpretation as well as understanding the information in a real and practical manner.
For example, what is the reason behind the melting of polar ice caps at an alarming rate?
SOME TECHNIQUES TO SOLVE
Here we will see some easy techniques through which we can easily solve the question based on the reading comprehension. Let us see them.
- To get a general idea of the comprehension we should read it quickly and fairly.
- Then you should read the same slowly to understand the meaning of the text.
- Now after reading it go through the question and turn that page where the answer lies according to the question.
- If the question asks you the meaning of any words or sentence you should answer it in your own words or phrases which can be easily understood.
Hence, follow these steps to quickly solve the passage without any mistakes.
CONCLUSION
At the end of this topic, we can conclude what is reading comprehension and their different types from which we have clear the complications of understanding the passage. also, we had taken a look at the simplest way to solve the passage through which we can get full marks in our examination.
