Why Comprehension Strategies?

Literacy Logic uses best practices in education and literacy including comprehension strategies. These strategies equip readers with the necessary tools to understand and engage with the text more effectively.

  1. Active Engagement: Students are actively engaged in the text they are reading if they are applying these strategies. This involvement enhances their understanding of the text.

  2. Metacognition: Thinking about their own thinking! Fluent readers and writers monitor their understanding as they go. The strategies are second nature - this is the goal.

  3. Text analysis: By explicitly teaching these strategies, readers have a systematic approach to analyze and interpret what they read.

  4. Vocabulary development: An expanded vocabulary enables readers to comprehend and engage with more advanced texts. Learning new vocabulary words and making connections between these words and concepts contribute to the reader's ability to understand unfamiliar words, infer meaning and develop a richer vocabulary overall.

At Literacy Logic, we provide explicit strategy instruction with Summarizing, Context Clues, Making Connections, Visualizing, Questioning, Making Inferences, and many more. These strategies are cognitive processes and techniques that readers use to construct meaning from what they read, make connections, and monitor their understanding. 

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