Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Reading Comprehension?

Babar R asked:


To increase my reading comprehension level, is it better to read a book that’s exciting or a book that’s boring?

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6 Responses to “Reading Comprehension?”

chachi Says:
September 7th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

exiting so you get it but thats at ur level

Jackie Says:
September 8th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Read a book that’s higher level that’s interesting to your interests.

kellie r Says:
September 10th, 2009 at 11:06 pm

any book, magazine, newspaper will do just read

Mike C Says:
September 13th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

It would be better to read something exciting. You’re more involved with it, and will thus remember it better. Once you’re in that comprehending mode, you can apply it to boring materials, and get more out of them.

Jan F Says:
September 16th, 2009 at 11:42 pm

To improve your reading comprehension, the best reading material is . . .

1. something you find interesting
2. a topic you already know something about
3. a “comfortable” level in terms of vocabulary; not too challenging

If it’s something you find boring, it will be difficult to stay focused. Even if it seems interesting, if it’s a topic you know absolutely nothing about, there will be too much new stuff for you to comprehend and so it’s not suitable. If the reading level is too challenging, you’ll be using a lot of your “brain” just figuring out the vocabulary and not have much left for the meaning of the passage as a whole.

embroidery fan Says:
September 18th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

One that’s exciting. Reading comprehension is increased by your being able to make pictures in your head about the topic. If you are bored, you will daydream, and not make the pictures in your imagination.

I find that books like adventure stories (war scenes, sinking boats) are a bit too complicated to visualize easily. Maybe choose an interesting book, but one with lots of conversations that are interesting, and some action, too. Maybe slow action, like spies sneaking up on people, or a book like “Into the Wild”, or “Black Like Me” , or “Old Yeller”, or “The Call of the Wild”. A book where things happen, but not too quickly.

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