Comprehension is a very important life skill. By mastering comprehension, one really gets the most benefit of reading.
Goal:
Ensure that what is read is understood and enough portions are remembered so that the reader can build a summary from those portions.
This is how we do it with our 7 year old 2nd grader.
Every evening, we spend 30 minutes reading one book.
Right now we read 2-3 pages at a maximum.
Our current book is from a set of Sherlock Holmes series from Costco.
At the end of reading, I ask him to recall and summarize everything he read.
He does not recall everything at first, so we read all of it again.
This time he ensures that he reads slowly and tries to focus only on the reading material.
By doing this, I am emphasizing on paying full attention and remembering as many things as he reads.
Future:
Eventually we’ll start reading much more than 2-3 pages in one sitting and increase his mental focus to retain more information.
As brain typically works, in stead of memorizing everything he reads, he’ll learn to keep only the important portions so that he can rebuild the whole content from those.
Read improving-comprehension-part-2.
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