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The document discusses reading comprehension, strategies to improve comprehension, and interventions for students with learning disabilities. It defines comprehension as the interpretation and understanding of what is read. Strong comprehension skills are important both academically and personally. Effective strategies include connecting to prior knowledge, asking questions, visualizing, inferring, and reflecting on how reading changes thinking. For students with learning disabilities, interventions should focus on both word recognition and comprehension strategies through modeling, questioning, controlling difficulty, and small group instruction.

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Comprehension

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Why is it
What is it? important?
“Comprehension is the
interpretations and Strong comprehension
understanding of what is skills are an important
read” (ReadingRockets). In part of reading. These
order for students to be
skills are an important
effective readers the must be
able to understand what it is part of reading
they are reading. Just enjoyment both
because a student can read academically and
fluently does not mean that personally.
they understand what they Comprehension helps
are reading.
children develop
Students must be able to:
intellectually, socially,
1) Decode what they
and professionally
read.
(Rutzler, S. 2017).
2) Make connections to
what they already
know.
3) Think deeply about
what they have read.
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Strategies For
Comprehension

There are a wide variety of resources


available to teachers. Following are
some strategies from Adrianne
Gear’s “Reading Power- Fictions”

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these five things while they read:
Reading Interventions For Students With Learning Disabilities
1) Connect- make connections
to experiences and activate
back ground knowledge.
Much research has been done over the past Most effective approach to increasing
20 years regarding the best teaching methods 2) Questions- ask questions
comprehension includes direct institution and
before, during, and after
for students with LD. Two main areas of focus strategy instruction. Following are some reading.
are increasing word recognition and instruction components:
improving comprehension strategies. -Directed response/questioning 3) Visualize- make pictures in
their minds while they read.
-Control difficulty of processing demands
Students need to recognize real words not of task. 4) Infer- “filling in” what has
just sound out letters. Following are some not been written directly.
-Elaboration
instruction components and activities for 5) Transform – being aware
-Modeling
increasing word recognition in students with that reading can change our
LD. -Group instruction thinking and reflecting on
-Strategy cues what has been read and
-Sequencing- break down the lesson into learned.
short activities.
-Segmentation- Break down the targeted
skill.
-Advanced organizers- have student review
material prior to lesson and have a
direct focus and objective.
References
Reading Rockets Launching Young Readers. (2019). Comprehension. WETA Public Broadcasting. Retrieved from:
http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/comprehension

Adler, C.R. (2019). Seven Strategies To Teach Students Text Comprehension. Reading Rockets Launching Young Readers. WETA
Public Broadcasting. Retrieved from: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seven-strategies-teach-students-text-
comprehension

Rutzler, S. (2017). Importance of Reading Comprehension. MathGenie Makes Math Fun. Retrieved from:
https://www.mathgenie.com/blog/importance-of-reading-comprehension

Gear, A. (2006). Reading Power: Teaching Students To Think While They Read. Pembroke Publishers. Ontario.

Lee, S., Stanberry, K. (2019). Effective Reading Interventions For Kids With Learning Disabilities. Reading Rockets Launching
Young Readers. WETA Public Broadcasting. Retrieved from: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/effective-reading-
interventions-kids-learning-disabilities

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