"This involves that ability of readers to know when they understand what they read, when they do not understand, and to use appropriate strategies to improve their understanding when it is blocked. Comprehension monitoring is a form of metacognition." (Reading Rockets, 2015)
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Example One:In this video it talks about the three steps to help monitor student's learning. Those three step are: preparing, tracking and applying. It is important that student's are understanding what they are reading, and visualizing helps that. In the video it shows a chart that has the monitoring comprehension definition, which is: "I can keep track of when I'm understanding or not understanding the main ideas and arguments of a text." Many students will skip over what they do not understand, so this video talks about some clues that show the reader that they aren't understanding. This video enforces stopping when a student doesn't understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdyMJ3C1vUo
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(HaynesEnglish, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdyMJ3C1vUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdyMJ3C1vUo
Example Two:This video focused on "inner conversation" for monitoring comprehension. The teacher in the video explained inner comprehension as thinking of why a character did something in a story, or what something happened. Basically, inner comprehension is having a conversation with yourself in your head about WHY something happened.
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(CheetahReader, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1YzrnY7q88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1YzrnY7q88
Self- Monitoring:
Monitoring comprehension means becoming self-regualted, meta-cognitive thinkers who are able to reflect upon thought processes (Literacy in Context (LinC), 2011). |
A student could use a think-aloud as a way to monitor there comprehension. Before is a link to help a student successfully think-aloud.
https://www.polk-fl.net/staff/teachers/reading/documents/Read180Day1/Monday3/ToThinkOrN_Escandell/TOTHINKORNHO_ESCANDELL1.pdf |