How to improve Students Reading Comprehension!_小升初复习

How to improve Students Reading Comprehension!

4. The structure of paragraphs

I tell the students that a paragraph is a group of sentences. A typical paragraph consists of three parts. The first sentence usually contains the topic sentence, which is the heart of the paragraph. The topic sentence contains the new aspect of the subject of the passage. The second part of the paragraph contains sentences, which develop the aspect. These sentences may contain arguments, explanations, details, examples, and other supporting evidence. The last sentence of a paragraph is often a summary of the paragraph or a linking sentence to the next paragraph. So we can get a good impression of the contents of the paragraph by the structure.

5. Students Anticipation（推测）

I let students know that even if you have a wide and flexible vocabulary you will encounter words of which they do not know the meaning. Very often there is not enough time to look up all those words in a dictionary. This means that students should be able to guess the meaning of the word. This is often possible if the student understands the relationships between words in meaning and form. I ask the student to notice the word formation if they meet new words. From the roots and affixes and conversion and compounding, they learn to try to guess the meaning of the word according to the content.

To make a good guess at the meaning of the word, I ask students to pay attention to the clues； indications that help him find that meaning. If you meet new words and try to find if there are synonyms and repeated ideas of the new words. I teach students to follow these steps： 1） Determine the word class, i.e. a verb, a noun, an adjective, an adverb, etc. 2） Determine its function in the sentence, i.e. is it an attributive or an adverbial？ 3） Contextual clues, is the context in which we find this word positive or negative； what does the context tell us about the word？ 4） Word formations, is there any relation between this word and a word that is familiar to you？ 5） Guess the eventual meaning of the word logically and reasonably.