A learning style is an individual’s approach to learning based on strengths, weaknesses, and preferences. By examining your learning style, you’ll become aware of how your brain learns best. And if you know how you learn best, you can also communicate more effectively with your instructors.

PERCEIVING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION: The Learning Cycle. We perceive and process information and experiences in different ways. Then we process new learning by acting on it, by trying things out. The combination of how you perceive and process information and experiences forms your unique learning style.

visual, auditory, kinesthetic. it allows you to explore your learning style.

A useful strategy when a reading assignment is tough. Is reading it out loud. In general, you should highlight less than. 10% of the text. You should do your first complete review of a reading assignment within.

Five Keys to Helping Students Read Difficult Texts

1. BEFORE READING: Preview & Build Anticipation.
2. BEFORE READING: Set Purpose.
3. DURING READING: Synthesize Along the Way.
4. DURING READING: Ask Questions.
5. AFTER READING: Explain.

7 reading strategies you can use to improve your comprehension skills

• Improve your vocabulary.
• Come up with questions about the text you are reading.
• Use context clues.
• Look for the main idea.
• Write a summary of what you read.
• Break up the reading into smaller sections.
• Pace yourself.

There are six levels: literal, inferential, appreciative, critique, evaluative, and essential. For each level you come up with questions and then MORE IMPORTANTLY with well developed and thoroughly explained responses.

Before viewing comprehension strategies that promote understanding of video and streaming content.

• Anchor Strategies: Viewing Purpose, Preview, Predict, Connect.
• Anchor Strategies: Stop, Clarify, Question, Infer.
• Anchor Strategies: Summarize, Analyze, Create, Socialize.
• Extended Comprehension Strategies.

The Levels of Questions strategy helps students comprehend and interpret a text by requiring them to answer three types of questions about it: factual, inferential, and universal.

Comprehension means understanding or mentally grasping the meaning of something. The answer to a comprehension question usually is something you can point to in the paragraph or passage.

1. Comprehension Questions about Story Structure

• What is the title of this book?
• Who is the author and /or illustrator?
• How do you know if this book is fiction or nonfiction?
• How did the story start?
• Can you retell the story in order of events?
• Where is the story set?
• What is the genre of this story?

Reading Comprehension: Tricks

• Do not over-emphasize trivialities.
• Do not memorize.
• Do not read the passage first.
• Do not over-emphasize on vocabulary skills for RCs.
• Do not spend time on RCs that you cannot comprehend at first.
• Do not think the correct option would come from outside the passage.
• Do not rely on ‘trigger words’

4 Common comprehension mistakes students make (and how to avoid them)

• Not actively reading.
• Not reading out loud.
• Not summarising the text.
• Not asking the text questions.

Reading passage first and then questions is the most popular strategy for RC. While answering the question you may come back to the passage to find answer as you have just read the passage initially and not crammed it.

How to answer comprehension questions – Step-by-step

1. Identify and restate the keywords in the question.
2. Present your answer.
3. Incorporate your evidence.
4. Explain your example.
5. Conclude your response.

Strategy to answer the title questions correctly: Identify the subject/central idea: Identify the subject of the passage and make sure it reflects in the answer options (implicitly/explicitly), as done in case of ‘main idea’ question. This is the topic around which the whole passage is built.