Reading Comprehension

• text structure is how information in a passage is organized.
• reading is the process of making meaning from a word or cluster of words.
• the three key ideas about reading; meaning, reading, and mediocre.
• meaning is found in cluster of words, not necessarily in complete sentences.
• sentence fragments can also express meaning.
• reading involves getting meaning from the words, it means understanding the information or ideas or feelings expressed by the words. it is a thinking activity.
• in mediocre, we do not just understand a writer's meaning, we make meaning from what we read. readers must use their knowledge of vocabulary sentence structure and the writer's subject to construct meaning.
• psychologist francis p. robinson of ohio state university developed the SQ5R method to reading.
• SQ5R method is to enable one to engage actively in reading textbooks and other materials. it helps process information which leads to higher memory and mastery of the material. also it builds a framework to better understand and assimilate information from large volume of reading material.
• the seven SQ5R approach are the following: survey, question, read, respond, record, recite, and review.
• sequencing is a very important skill in reading comprehension. in this skill, the learner will be guided on the sequence of events of a story, a biography, an incident, a police report, a diary, or a news story. it determines which happens first, second, third, forth, and so on.
• comparison and contrast is equally important as the previously target skill because it makes you think critically and analytically.
• comparison tells us to get the similarities while contrast tells us to get the differences.
• understanding cause and effect relationship in sentences, paragraphs, and long compositions is considered a plus factor already as a student.
• cause is the reason something happened while effect is the result of what happened.
• sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story, the beginning, middle, and end and also to the ability to retell the events within a given text in the order in which they occurred. the ability to sequence events in a text is a key comprehension strategy, especially for narrative texts.
• cause and effect allows you to note a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the others .