During Reading

A goal of any reading strategy it to ensure that your students are comprehending, or understandinga and applying, the material. To evaluate students' comprehension, the teacher must check for understanding throughout the reading. Continually check students' understanding, especially when reading long works. Students need to construct meaning from all three levels of comprhension. These three levels are literal, interpretive, and applied. A literal level of comprehension is a question formed from something that can be literally found in the text. Literal questions are the easiest to identify and do not require any schema. An interpretive level of comprehension is a question that often requires prior schema about the information in the quesiton. Interpretive questions have the students' read between the lines or make inferences about what they are being asked. Interpretive questions require prior knowledge on the subject of the question. An applied level of comprehension is a question that takes what is literl and what is interpreted and then finding out how to apply it to a situation. Applied questions often ask students to analyze, discover, create, or synthesize an answer. As a teacher, I think it will be important to include all three levels of comprehension. All three levels are important and to apply knowledge students need to know how to interpret literal and interpretive questions. Based on my students schema and reading level will determine how many questions are literal, interpretive, or applied.