Strategy to solve reading comprehension

Hello everyone !!!🙂

Hope you all are enjoying the “passion of reading”.

I suggested you about the primary steps in the last post regarding Reading Comprehension questions, so, here are the  Secondary steps :

To solve any “Reading comprehension” questions it is important to have a decisive approach. These approaches are as follows:

1^st step: Skimming the passage (determining the core idea from a long selection just by focusing on key words of the passage)

2^nd step : Scanning the passage : Scanning is reading a text speedily in order to find specific information, e.g. figures or names.

3^rd step : Chunking is a practice that allows students to breakdown difficult passages into more comprehensible pieces or smaller parts. This helps in integrating information.

4^th step : Make a flow chart of ideas. Practice of making flow chart will eventually help you in comprehension.

                                                                

Successful readers do the following :

• They use existing knowledge to make sense of new information
• They draw inferences from the paragraphs
• They scrutinize their comprehension
• They determine what is important
• They synthesize information to create new thinking i.e. ‘conclusion”

Usually students face issues with questions based on “Main idea” , “Implied idea” , Thematic highlight”, “ Central Theme” , “Inference”, “assumption”, and “conclusion”.....

Here, I am suggesting you the tricks to solve such questions.  

For “IDEA” based questions you need to read the first and the last paragraph carefully. Therefore, you need to keep your eyes revolve around the first and last paragraph of the passage. Try to comprehend the idea being discussed in the passage.

For “INFERENCE” based questions you need to grasp the meaning of a passage without being given all the information.

For “ASSUMPTION” based questions you need to identify the missing links or logic between the passage and its conclusion.

For “CONCLUSION” based questions you need to draw the ideas from the passage that wasn't directly stated in the passage. You can reach to a conclusion after consideration of evidence or facts given in the passage.

Hope !! this would help in solving RC questions.

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