Category Reading Comprehension
Dyslexia is a learning disorder that primarily affects the skills involved in reading and writing; that is, in the access to the lexicon. Some people with dyslexia maybe presents some type of neurological and / or sensorial alteration that justifies this disorder. In addition, in most cases it is about people who have had school
Reading and Reading comprehension: ¿How can we improve it? We have already talked about what is Reading comprehension, how it could be altered in many learning disorders and how it could be improved. However, we have never talked about the importance of having a good level of reading comprehension in our daily lives. In this post, we would
Reciprocal learning Reciprocal learning: a guided practice to improve reading comprehension Reciprocal learning is characterized by “guided practice in the application of simple and concrete strategies in reading comprehension task” (Soriano, Sánchez, Soriano y Nievas, 2013). It is well known that nowadays having a good level of reading comprehension is essential as a solid base
Reading skills: Which are the necessary conditions to have a good reading comprehension? All readers, even the experts ones, use reading skills strategies unconsciously. As Solé (1992) says, during the reading and the comprehension of a text, nothing occurs. That is in part not true, because of the fact that processing of written information, essential
Reading comprehension, world knowledge and acquisition of new information How do we comprehend the information we are reading? World knowledge is an essential component of reading comprehension. Every text takes for granted the readers’ familiarity with a whole range of unspoken and unwritten facts about the cultural and natural worlds. A well-educated 12th-grader knows an