What are the kinds of reading comprehension?

Answer 1

The different kinds of reading comprehensions are literal comprehension, applied comprehension, lexical comprehension, effective comprehension and interpretive comprehension. It is important that an individual understand these different kinds of comprehension.

Answer 2

There are various ways:

1. Recognizing words quickly and understanding their meaning in the context.
2. Self monitoring to make sure you understand the text.
3. Keeping track of the text in your mind.

Another system suggests:

• Survey,
• Question,
• Read,
• Recite, and
• Review

If you are asking about types of reading strategies there are numerous theories and ideas and may depend on the your reading level.

If you are a beginner reader then your focus will be on decoding and thus your energy will be spent on number 1 above and often comprehension will be low when reading a piece of text for the first time. A second reading is often helpful. Reading twice is a strategy as is a range of word attack skills that a beginning reader will use.

Beyond that visualisation, prior knowledge, asking questions and hypothesizing are strategies that help a reader think more deeply as they read and thus become more involved with text and therefore increase their chances of reading accurately.

Answer 3

The types of reading according to purpose are:

Skimming

Scanning

Intensive/Functional Reading

Extensive/Recreational Reading

Literature Reading

Detail Study Reading

Answer 4

Reading styles are of different types. To be an effective and good reader you must be able to identify the reading style that suits your reason for readings. Most flexible readers adopt a reading style to make their readings both learning and entertaining.

One of the reading styles you can use in reading complicated article or writings is Study Reading method. This requires you to read carefully and slowly than the normal reading to get full comprehension of difficult areas. Reading aloud the materials is also a good way to help you recall and store the information.

On the other hand, if you want to expedite in obtaining the idea of the material you are reading you can use the Skimming method. This is useful when you have to read many reading materials in a short period of time.

But if your purpose is to only get a particular idea or information Scanning is the best reading style to adopt. Study Reading, Skimming and Scanning are all created to help you read wisely. Read now and try to follow these styles and see how it will help you.

Answer 5

The following connections are reading connections---

- Text to Text ( T - T )

• Making a connection between two books, or texts.

-Text to Self ( T - S )

• Making a connection between the text read and yourself/ personal life.

-Text to World ( T - W )

• Making a connection between text and the world.
• For example, if you read in a text about global warming, a Text to World connection would be that global warming is something many scientists say will happen soon.

Answer 6

reading (to decipher writing)

reading (output of a measurement instrument)

reading (an event where an author recites a body of work)