Two Comprehension Strategies

Language Arts Group

One good strategy is to look at the information at the beginning of the book you are about to read. First of all you can learn a lot about the book by looking at the title alone. This will give you an idea of what the book will be about, and it can get your mind and imagination started to get you more interested in the book. When you are interested you will remember or comprehend more. Another good idea is to look at the table of contents. It will give you a better idea of the order of the topics, and a small outline of the information in the book.

Another strategy for better comprehending text is using the index in the back part of the book. If you are reading along in a book and you come to a word or subject that you would like to know more about then you can look up the word in the index and it will tell you if there is more information on other pages in the book with the same type of information on it.