LEVELS of COMPREHENSION

1

• Applied Comprehension
• Focuses on the significance or relevance of text
  to reader
• Demonstrates the constructive nature of reading
• Schema based

• Interpretive Comprehension
• Focuses on what the author means
• Synthesis of ideas/information from text and
  readers knowledge, experience and imagination

• Literal Comprehension
• Focuses on what the author says

LEVELS of COMPREHENSION
2
Reading the lines
Comprehending the text
Reading between the lines
Reading beyond the lines
3
Think and Search
Right There
QUESTION / ANSWER RELATIONSHIPS

On My Own
The Author and Me
4
Right There

• Answer can be found right in the text.
• Answer is often easy to find (but not always).
• Usually words from the answer are included right
  there in the question.
• The words to answer the question are right there
  in the same sentence of text.

5

• The answer is in the text.
• The answer is in more than one part of the text
  so the reader must put the information together.
• Words in the question are generally the same as
  the answer.
• Pieces of the answer are usually not in the same
  sentence.
• Reader must think and search to locate all the
  pieces of information needed to answer the
  question.

Think and Search
6
The Author and Me

• The answer is not stated in the text.
• In order to answer you must combine what you
  know with what the text said.
• There is not one correct answer.

7
You could answer the question without reading the
text but...
Reading the text should help you answer.
On My Own
The answer is not in the text.
Use your own experience and knowledge to answer
the question.
8

• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her
  curds and whey.
• Along came a spider and sat down beside her and
  frightened Miss Muffet away.

QUESTION / ANSWER RELATIONSHIPS

• RIGHT THERE
• What was Miss Muffet doing as she sat on the
  tuffet?

• Think and Search
• What events led to Miss Muffets sudden
  departure?

• The Author and Me
• Why did these events lead to Miss Muffets hasty
  departure?

On My Own In a situation similar to Miss
Muffets what you would do would?