Reading through Tompkins chapter 7 brought to my consciousness the processes that I go through in to order to comprehend the text that I am reading. I will admit that I do not frequently do all of these all of time, which I do not think to be possible to do anyway, however, when reading through texts, the strategy that I employ almost everytime is that of connecting. I am always connecting everything that I read to my life in someway. When reading texts about teaching, I am picturing my future teaching career and relating what I read to my future. When I read for pleasure, such as reading novels, I connect what I am reading to events that have happened in my past, pretending that I am a character in the book, or relating the characters in the book to my friends and family. When reading a novel or reading aethestically, I almost always viualize what it is that I am reading. Visualization helps the story come alive and to make reading more interesting. I do predict, identify big ideas, and monitor my own comprehension sometimes as I read. As mentioned in Tompkins, monintoring my comprehension comes to the forefront of my mind when I realize that I do not understand something that I am reading. I very infrequently evaluate what it is that I have read. I also infrequently question by asking myself literal and inferential questions about the text that I am reading. This is something that I feel like I need to work on a lot. It is when one questions what they are reading and answers those questions through the text that the text becomes the most comprehensible that it can be. In the future, I need to work into my comprehension strategies that ability to be able to ask myself questions about the text in order to create a better understanding of what it is that I am reading.
Until next time
*Lisa*
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I agree with Lisa. I also feel like I use connecting all of the time. I feel like I connect everthing I read to my personal life, something I’ve read before, seen before, heard, before, etc. I think this enables me to comprehend the text more fully, because I am using past memories and connections that I have. Unlike Lisa, I feel like I do evaluate what I am reading- at least if it is for pleasure. I feel like I don’t really do it much with my school work, but when I am reading for pleasure I am constantly evaluating what the characters are doing and the choices they are making. I feel like with evaluation also comes prediction. When I am evaluating the characters and such I always feel like I am also guessing what they are going to do next. Overall, I enjoyed these chapters because there is so much to learn about comprehension and so much goes on while reading and we don’t even realize it.
-Nicki
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