To Grasp Mentally all Connections of a Problem or Event
According to Reading Tips for Parents from the U.S. Department of Education Web site, comprehension is acquiring strategies to understand, remember, and communicate what is read. Reading comprehension strategies are the steps good readers use to make sure they understand text. The teaching of comprehension strategies is one of the five essential components of reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel.
Pre-K,K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 14 The process in which a reader constructs meaning through interaction with text; accurately understanding what is written or said.
Ability to find and construct meaning from texts.
Understanding the meaning of spoken and written languages.
the act of grasping the meaning, nature or importance of information
The ability to derive meaning from text; the reason for reading.
See Reading Comprehension.
Understanding the meaning of printed or spoken language.
an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result); "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"
surface level understanding of a text. Students can demonstrate this understanding by responding to content or vocabulary questions, identifying and paraphrasing the author's main ideas, and summarizing or re-stating the author's message.
the reconstruction of the intended meaning of a communication; accurately understanding what is written or said. oncepts of print-see print awareness.
Understanding accurately what is written or said
Knowledge or understanding of spoken or written language.
the ability to understand what is being read. Many reading abilities and components help with comprehension including: fluency, vocabulary, background knowledge of the reader, the purpose for reading, repeated reading, etc.
is the act of grasping meaning through the intellect.
Comprehension is defined as the ability to grasp the meaning of material. This may be shown by translating material from one form to another (words to numbers), by interpreting material (explaining or summarizing), and by estimating future trends (predicting consequences or effects). These learning outcomes go one step beyond the siple remembering of material, and represent the lowest level of understanding. The shortage of a product or resource is called a) mass consumption ------distracter b) planned obsolescence --distracter c) materialism -----------distracter d) scarcity --------------key Alternatives are in bold; (A) to (C) are incorrect, and so are "distracters"; (D) is correct and so the "key" to the question.
The process of constructing meaning from written text. It includes such skills as: activating prior knowledge, literal understanding of what is read, sequencing, summarizing, making inferences, predicting, and making connections between new and unknown information.
The ability to understand the meaning of subject matter.
Understanding of spoken, written, or gestural communication.
(usually refers to comprehension of language) the understanding of the relationship between thought and behavior expressed through language. This usually includes understanding derived from complex grammatic structure and through hierarchical classification of language. One's comprehension of heard language and one's comprehension of language one reads can be quite different.
understanding or interpretation of a message
a level of learning that involves grasping the meaning of material or restating previously learned material in one's own words.
the ability of the mind to understand.
The ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read.
The second level of student ability in Bloom's taxonomy is called "comprehension" and requires a student to demonstrate an understanding of the information. Students may show this by summarizing main ideas, translating a mathematical word problem to numbers, or by interpreting charts or graphs.
understanding of words and concepts to
Comprehension is knowledge on three levels individually or inclusively. It means on one level to simply understand something by knowing what it is. In a larger sense it is meant to know a thing in depth and to understand it thoroughly. And in the total sense comprehension is to know a thing and to understand it thoroughly within its larger context; that is wholistically.
The process of deepening understanding. Involves using prior knowledge to understand more about what we have categorized.
Comprehending involves understanding direction and adhering to established procedures.