READING

COMPREHENSIONS
Strategies, Contents, and
Glossaries
 GROUP I
AZIZA ISLAMIANI (115.160.049)
CALVIN PIETRO (115.160.051)
DANDI MAHENDRIS (115.160.044)
 Reading Comprehensions Strategies
– Making connections. Readers deeply understand when they connect what
they are reading to their lives, prior knowledge, past experiences, other
texts, events, and issues. Each of these connections strengthens a reader’s
comprehension and helps provide context for deep understanding.
Encouraging a student to examine complex connections between the text
and literary themes, world events, and interrelated issues will enhance
comprehension even further.
– Visualizing. All readers should form pictures in their heads as they read.
These “mind movies” allow the reader to visualize the story as it is happening
and deepen text comprehension. Readers should also integrate their senses
to clarify visualizations and ask themselves what they can hear, taste, smell,
or feel. 
Reading Comprehensions Strategies
– Asking questions. Asking questions before, during, and
after reading deepens comprehension and provides a
better understanding of the author’s purpose. Readers
should ask questions throughout the reading such as: 
• “What is the author trying to tell me?”
• “What will happen next?”
• “Do I understand what I am reading?"
• “What do I already know about this topic?”
• “How is this text like others I’ve already read?”

– Inferring. Reading comprehension isn’t just text deep. 

Readers must dive into the text and read between the
lines to understand the deeper meaning. Drawing
meaning from conclusions and questions allows the
reader to make inferences based on text clues and
background knowledge. Making inferences is a
sophisticated comprehension skill and often requires
direct and targeted practice.
Reading Comprehensions Strategies
– Determining Importance. In both fiction and non-fiction
texts readers must determine the most important parts.
Understanding the most crucial sections of a story’s plot
provides the reader with clues about the conflict or
character traits. Understanding the most important ideas in
informational texts supports the reader’s ability to
comprehend complex topics. Readers should use clues
such as titles, headings, pictures, and captions to
determine importance. 
– Synthesizing. Finishing a piece of text or an entire book
isn’t the end. It should be just the beginning! Good readers
find ways to use what they’ve learned to create their own
ideas. Synthesizing requires readers to create a single
understanding by combing prior knowledge and new
learning. Readers must also be able to integrate a variety of
other reading skills and strategies independently. It is a
complex skill and can be developed while reading a variety
of texts and participating in engaging discussions.
Glossary of Reading Terms

• The study of reading is a science with roots in

many domains; linguists study reading,
psychologists study reading, educators study
reading, even computer scientists are studying
reading. The process of reading has been dissected
and examined from a variety of perspectives, and
experts in the field have had to adopt and modify
terminology or generate new terminology to
describe what their examinations have revealed.
• Unfortunately, all of this new and precise technical
terminology can be confusing - it is necessary
when you are trying to describe a precise concept,
but there are so many concepts in reading and
reading instruction that the terminology can
interfere with clear communication at times.
Glossary of Reading Terms

• The Reading Coherence Initiative (RCI) at the

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
has put together this glossary of terms related to
reading and reading instruction so that people can
quickly and easily check terms as they encounter
them. Also, as people are trying to describe precise
and technical concepts, they may find this glossary
a useful resource of precise and technical terms.
• Being a web-based document, this is a flexible and
living document - if there are terms which are
either omitted or which you feel are
misrepresented in this glossary, let us know by
typing the term and definition in the form below.
After a peer review, the term will be added to the
glossary.
Example
Seismic Reflection (both on-shore and marine) is the most
common geophysical methodology used for oil and gas
exploration and exhibits the highest degree of technical
sophistication in terms of both data acquisition and signal
processing capabilities.

Glossaries :
- Acquisition : an object or data obtained by observation.
- Reflection : the throwing back by a body or surface of light,
heat, or sound without absorbing it.
- Sophistication : the quality of being sophisticated.
EXAMPLE :

Seismic reflection what is it?

Seismic Reflection (both on-shore and marine) is the most common
geophysical methodology used for oil and gas exploration and exhibits
the highest degree of technical sophistication in terms of both data
acquisition and signal processing capabilities. It surveys provide either
2 or 3 dimensional imagery of stratigraphic boundaries and geologic
structure (e.g. faults, stratigraphic layering, folding) at depths ranging
from 100’s of metres to several kilometres in depth.
Seismic reflections occur at boundaries in rock densities which give
rise to “reflected” acoustic energy. For shallow ground exploration,
seismic reflection can be an effective method in profiling upper
bedrock surface depths as well as deeper litho-stratigraphic features.
Compared with other shallow geophysical methods however (e.g.
GPR, ERT, SR), Seismic Reflection surveys tend to be more expensive
because of comparatively higher equipment and labor requirements.
When required, Surface Search Inc. subcontracts conventional seismic
data acquisition and signal processing companies to collect Seismic
Reflection data on behalf of our clients. We offer full signal analysis
and interpretation services for seismic reflection surveys.
Question
• What is passage mainly about?
• The word “It” in paragraph 1 refers to...
•
REFERENCE

• Huntington learning center. 2017. (

https://huntingtonhelps.com/resources/blog/six-strategie
s-for-improved-reading-comprehension
). Access on 26 February 2017
• Surface Search. 2017. (http
://surfacesearch.com/seismic-reflection-what-is-it/ )
Access on 26 February 2017
• SEDL. 2017. (https://
www.sedl.org/reading/framework/glossary.html) Access
on 26 February 2017