Reading Comprehension Recommendation Report

This research was done by PANEL which is a group of researchers. Their main argument in this report was based on how to improve reading comprehension kindergarten through 3rd Grade. They define reading comprehension as the process of simultaneously extracting and establishing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language. They argue that in order to improve reading comprehension we must follow five recommendations.

Recommendation 1- Encourages teachers to teach learners different reading strategies that will help them understand what they are reading, able to remember it and therefore become independent and resourceful readers.

This are the reading strategies discussed:

● Activating prior knowledge or Predicting which is

The Panel suggests that teachers discuss the text with the learners to improve their reading comprehension. This approach is said to allow young readers to deeply consider the ideas they are reading. Teachers are to model ways to think about the text which will help learners when they are reading themselves.

Recommendation 4- Select texts intentional to support comprehension development. In this recommendation, they emphasise that the teacher must choose the correct texts that will support the goals of teaching and improve reading comprehension.

Recommendation 5- create an engaging and motivating context in which to teach reading comprehension. This precise how the teacher can motivate learners to improve their efforts to comprehend text. They said that the teacher that holds an interest of his learners may work hard in helping learners to develop good reading comprehension skills.

How is this useful to your AR?

My action research about addresses the problem of reading without an understanding in English first additional language in a Grade 3 classroom. This guide was written to improve reading comprehension for beginning readers. The panel developed 5 recommendations to tackle this problem of reading

This is what is needed to teachers to strategize plans to tackle any difficulties they come across. These strategies are: activating prior knowledge which helps the teacher to link what they know and what it is written in the text to create meaning. The second strategy is questioning which assist learners to understand what they are reading if we ask them questions and they answer it shows that they understand and it makes them read more to get the answer which helps them to understand the story. Visualizing is the third strategy which helps the learners to develop an image on what had read in the text which is an advantage as they will remember it. Monitoring, clarifying and fix up is the strategy that helps the learners pay attention whether they understand what they are reading, if not, they will reread or the teacher will use strategies to make them understand. At the end of the story, they must retell the story to the class or to his partner on his or her own words. These strategies seem to be effective as the data supports