comprehension skills
Text understanding abilities
Comprehension skills are the mental abilities that allow someone to understand and interpret what they read, hear, or observe.
These include identifying main ideas, making inferences, recognizing context, and connecting new information to existing knowledge.
The term appears most often in educational contexts: The reading program focuses on building comprehension skills in early learners.
- cultural literacyFamiliarity with shared references
- visual literacySkill in decoding images
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- main ideaCentral concept conveyed
- pragmaticsLanguage-in-context study
vocabulary · critical thinking · social cues · semantics · syntax · metacognition · abstraction · conceptualization · situational awareness · reading fluency · close reading · graphic organizers · prior knowledge · mental model · problem-solving · memory recall · pattern recognition · attention span
- readingfluency, read, readers, books, reading
- reading educationliteracy, reading, vocabulary, spelling, phonics
- reading supportdyslexia support, phonics instruction, reading fluency, reading programs, phonics
- reading assessmentreading level, reading proficiency, reading rate, diagnostic test, benchmark test
- tutoringmath tutor, math tutors, tutors, reading tutors, private tutoring
comprehension skillsmemorization
Committing information to recall
rote learning · regurgitation · parroting · cramming · information retention
comprehension skillsreading difficulties
Impaired text comprehension
illiteracy · functional illiteracy · learning disabilities · dyslexia
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