reading comprehension

I think only two (2) great intangible factors that able to contribute reading comprehension; exciting and rewarding. Exciting on the reading contents material and full of sharing knowledge values to be accepted as rewarding. Justly like an excitement drink by comparison, tasteful and healthy. A good author capable to edifies many readers bragging with quality reading contents till making readers feeling resistant is futile.

When i was in college we did a thesis on improving the pupils poor reading comprehension. According to the result of our experiment, small group discussion is an effective intervention in proving the reading comprehension of pupils. In fact small group discussion is more effective in answering not only low level questions but also high level questions. I hope my response will be of help to you.

you can do by starting at small things like telling short stories before bedtime. after that, ask the child about what he have heard and ask really relevant questions like what can he say about the behavior of the people mentioned in the story. children are more interested to stories like fairies for the girls and soemthing like cars and wars for the boys. you can read the Top 10 Ways to Improve Reading Skills in this link: http://school.familyeduca...

We read not only to see the words, but understand behind the lines. After the basic reading classes, students should be taught to read out the line of thoughts, structures, themes, in addition to facts and details. Reading skills are good tools to improve reading comprehension, but only based on reasonable amount of reading exercises.