Reading Comprehension

• 2000 words – basic meaning
• 6000 words – sentence comprehension
• silent reading is more important because reading out loud is slower – I think I feel this when I try to read Japanese, if I read it out loud, I can read everything but not understand it

SQ3R

• Survey – skim through quickly
• Question – ask questions, what was the title, what was it about?
• Read
• Recite – paraphrase
• Review – read the headings and try to recall the key points

REAP

This feels not as important as the textbook barely says anything about this

• Read
• Encode – into the reader’s own system
• Annotate – summarize in own words
• Ponder

DRTA (Directed Reading and Thinking Activity)

• Predict – predict the content from the headings/images
• Read – silent reading
• Prove – teacher asks open questions

ReQuest

The teacher and student both read. Then take turns asking questions, the person asking can check the text; the person answering can’t look at the text.

(This one actually sounds kinda fun to see in practice)

QAR (Question-Answer Relationship)

This one is kind of like the reading comprehension tests where you read and then answer questions.

• Questions right in the text
• Need to think, combine and integrate information from the text
• Need to combine information from the text along with their own knowledge
• Knowledge that the reader needs to know beforehand