Comprehension Application | Reading

Comprehension strategies are reading stretegies that help people read and understand the text.

They are prior knowledge, skimming and scanning, questioning, visualising, making connections, predicting, inferring, summarising, synthesising, and self monitoring.

Predicting and Visualizing can be used before reading so people can guess the next part of the story.

Prior knowledge, self monitoring, and inferring can be used during reading so people can learn words, and to recheck again.

Summarising, questioning, and making connections can be used after reading so people can see if they have understood the whole story, ask questions, and make links to themselves, the world and to another text. 

Knowing how to use comprehension strategies is important because it can help people use it before, during and after reading.