Reading and Understanding: Techniques to Improve Reading Comprehension

Reading and Understanding: Techniques to Improve Reading Comprehension

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to read and understand a text using different techniques.

Introduce the objective of the lesson and explain what the students will learn.

What do you already know about reading comprehension?

Previewing the Text

Before reading, preview the text by looking at headings, subheadings, and bolded words.

Explain the importance of previewing the text and demonstrate how to do it.

Vocabulary Building

Identify unfamiliar words and use context clues to determine their meaning.

Teach students how to identify unfamiliar words and provide examples of context clues.

Active Reading

While reading, actively engage with the text by underlining, highlighting, or taking notes.

Demonstrate how to actively engage with the text and provide examples.

Summarizing

After reading, summarize the main ideas and details in your own words.

Explain the importance of summarizing and provide opportunities for students to practice.

Questioning

Ask questions about the text to deepen understanding and clarify confusion.

Model how to ask questions and provide opportunities for students to practice.

Visualizing

Create mental images of what is happening in the text to enhance comprehension.

Explain the concept of visualization and demonstrate how to do it.

Reviewing

Review the text to reinforce understanding and retain information.

Provide strategies for reviewing and encourage students to review on their own.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.