Strategies That Promote Understanding of Content and Ideas for Students

Strategies That Promote Understanding of Content and Ideas for Students

In learning, there is an intentional and active part that occurs before, during or after reading something. This is known as reading comprehension and refers to the ability of an individual to understand something (Perfetti et al. 227). For students, this is a crucial part because everything they are taught requires them to comprehend it; essentially, that is all learning is about: understanding the new content and ideas that they are taught. To be able to understand something, there are various strategies that one can use. Looking back at my time as a student, here are three examples of strategies I used to help me understand everything I learned in class: summarizing and note-taking, practice, and non-linguistic representation (Burden et al. 173).

By summarizing, I would, for instance, read through an article, then outline all the important points and discard all the unnecessary details. Subsequently, I would reword the outline by writing an essay using the outline in a way that I understood. I would also use these summaries to refresh my memory during exam time. Notetaking for me involved writing down the main points that a teacher would highlight in class and adding more notes to them as I did my personal studies. These two strategies helped extensively, especially when doing research.

The second strategy I applied is practice (Burden et al. 176). Using resources like books from school and other online resources like papers, I frequently took tests that I would find to gauge my level of understanding. This strategy helped me get ready for tests, learn how to answer questions, and identify areas that I needed to revise on. Lastly, to avoid the monotony of reading, I would use non-linguistic representation forms of learning like flowcharts, computerized simulations, and dramatizations (Burden et al. 177). This strategy helped me create mental images of the content and deepen my understanding.

Works Cited

Burden, Paul R., and David M. Byrd. Method for effective teaching: Meeting the needs of All students (7 Th). United States: Pearson, 2013.

Perfetti, Charles A., Nicole Landi, and Jane Oakhill. “The acquisition of reading comprehension skill.” (2005).

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Strategies That Promote Understanding of Content and Ideas for Students

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