How to Increase Reading Comprehension

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By angel920
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Many students do not see themselves at all in a text. One of the best things you can do to help a struggling reader understand what he or she is reading, is help them to relate to a text. Good readers always do this without thinking about it, but it is a skill that can be easily learned.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

interesting text
patience

Step 1

Increasing reading comprehension takes time and effort. The first thing you should do is pick a text to read with your child. It should be age appropriate and interesting to the child. If your child is not a reader, pick something that is similar to the child's favorite television show or movie.
Step 2

Read the text with your child and help them to look for connections to the text. When good readers read a book, they often find things in the book that will remind them of their own experiences or experiences of others. For example, if you are reading one of the Harry Potter books, you may find yourself remembering how difficult fitting in at school was when you were a child. Making these kind of connections help the reader to understand the book and empathize with the characters. They begin to find themselves in the book.
Step 3

Making a connection with a book is a learned skill for struggling readers. Start slowly. First read books that will be easy to connect with, and then move on to more difficult books that will be interesting and more difficult to read.