Teaching students to comprehend text: reproducible 5.1
Comprehension survey
Student survey 1
Tick the things you do in your head to help you understand what you read:
Link what I’m reading to things I already know
Guess what’s going to come next
Make a picture in my mind
Read between the lines
Ask myself questions
Go back and re-read
Summarise as I’m reading
Look for the big idea or message
Use other ways to understand, for example, by working out the sequence of events or the relationships in a story
Now circle the ones you would like to learn more about to help you understand what you read.
Student survey 2
Here is a list of some of the comprehension strategies that you can use to help you understand what you read. Circle those that you would like to learn more about.
• Link what I’m reading to things I already know (make connections)
• Guess what’s going to come next (make predictions)
• Make a picture in my mind (visualise)
• Read between the lines (make inferences)
• Ask myself questions (self-questioning)
• Go back and re-read (seek clarification)
• Summarise as I’m reading (summarise)
• Look for the big idea or message (main idea)
• Use other ways to understand, for example, by working out the sequence of events or the relationships in a story (analyse and synthesise)
Teaching students to comprehend text: reproducible 5.1
Comprehension survey
Student survey 3
Here is a list of some of the comprehension strategies that readers use to help them understand what they read.
• Link what I’m reading to things I already know (make connections)
• Guess what’s going to come next (make predictions)
• Make a picture in my mind (visualise)
• Read between the lines (make inferences)
• Ask myself questions (self-questioning)
• Go back and re-read (seek clarification)
• Summarise as I’m reading (summarise)
• Look for the big idea or message (main idea)
• Use other ways to understand, for example, by working out the sequence of events or the relationships in a story (analyse and synthesise)
Describe how you use some or all of the strategies on this list. For each strategy you use, tell me:
Please list any other strategies that you use and describe how you use them.
Which comprehension strategies are most useful to you as you read? Circle them on the list.
Student survey 4
• What do you do when you are reading something and you do not understand what you are reading?
• Why do you do this?
• What else might you be able to do?
• What would you most like help with in order to be able to improve your comprehension?