Lesson 2: Reading Comprehension: what good readers do

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Reading Comprehension

Lesson 2

In Class Today

1. Checking answers text week 1
2. What do "good" readers do?
3. Six signs you have read it but you don't get it.
4. What to do when you've lost it.
5. Practice.

Score: (n-term= 1,4)

0 - 1.0

1  - 1.9

2 - 2.3

3 - 2.8

4 - 3.2

5 - 3.7

6 - 4.1

7 - 4.6

8 - 5.0

9 - 5.5

10 - 5.9

11 - 6.4

12 - 6.8

13 - 7.3

14 - 7.7

15 - 8.2

16 - 8.6

17 - 9.1

18 - 9.5

19 - 9.8

20 - 10.0

What do good readers do?

"Good" readers

• activate and use their existing knowledge, either from previous study or from their personal experience, to make sense of new information.
• ask questions about the text before, during and after reading
• wraw inferences from the text 

"Good" readers

• monitor their own comprehension
• use “fix-up” strategies when meaning breaks down 
• determine what is important, separating main ideas from details
• create images (in their heads) to “illustrate” their reading. 

What happens when you don't get it?

Six signs you have read it but you don't get it

1. The voice inside the reader’s head isn’t interacting with the text. 
2. The camera inside the reader’s head shuts off. 
3. The reader’s mind begins to wander. 
4. The reader can’t remember what has been read. 
5. Clarifying questions asked by the reader are not answered.
6. The reader reencounters a character and has no recollection when that character was introduced.

What can you do when you've lost it?

What to do when you've lost it.

1. Make a connection between the text and your life, your knowledge of the world, or another text.
2. Make a prediction.
3. Stop and think about what you have already read.
4. Ask yourself a question and attempt to answer it.
5. Write about what you have read.
6. Visualize.
7. Use print and text conventions. 
8. Re-read.
9. Adjust your speed: slow down or speed up.