We’re often asked to provide reading comprehension help for students; the common trend being that students often struggle with retaining information that they have read. Whether our reading comprehension lessons focus on passages found on the SAT Critical Reading section, the ACT Reading section, or a literary text in an English class, students too often quickly forget what they’ve read, leaving them unable to answer reading comprehension questions afterward. An important point for students to remember is that reading comprehension, especially in high school and in college, is not reading regurgitation. The purpose of reading a passage, poem or literary work is not to regurgitate factual information from the work. Rather, it’s to read with an analytical, critical eye and answer questions afterward that call for inference and reasoning.
Benefits of Reading Comprehension
Some students who need reading comprehension help reflect a problem on the other end of the spectrum. In analyzing what they have read, they cross the line between inference and assumption, thus, reading too much into the work and drawing conclusions that are unsupported by the text.
Reading Comprehension Helps ALL Subjects
Reading comprehension help does not just affect students on standardized tests and in English class. It is necessary for other subjects, including history, biology and physics, and will greatly benefit them in college when they have tons of reading to complete in a short amount of time. During our reading comprehension lessons, our work is customized to fit the needs of the student. And we also help our students develop a reading list of literature that they should have read before entering college. Our reading comprehension lessons also include ensuring that the student fully grasps the text and also realizes that it is more relatable and enjoyable than they ever thought.
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