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Essay / Comprehension Instruction - 2090
In U.S. classrooms, students struggle to understand the written content of a textbook, but comprehension instruction is one way to help students and teachers to solve this problem. Learning and understanding from textbooks is a part of every subject and this type of teaching can be used in all areas. The problem is that this doesn't happen enough in classrooms because teachers have little knowledge about how to incorporate comprehension teaching strategies into teaching because they don't have the correct information or any information on this type of teaching. Author Paul Neufeld about the article Content Area Comprehension Instruction Classrooms want teachers to fully understand and how to use comprehension instruction. He describes that understanding a text is always different due to factors such as diversity of background, which can cause a student to perceive the material in a different way. However, he understands that for the comprehension process to work to its full potential, the student must be engaged with the ideas arising from what has been read in the text. Its contradictory disadvantage is that it also knows that if a student is weak in understanding words and how to pronounce them, this can hinder the process of teaching comprehension. If the student has a high level of word processing, the easier the understanding of the text will be. The author notes that expert comprehension readers are “self-regulated,” which may benefit other students, perhaps not at the time, but they can be remembered and used in the future. For a teacher to understand how to proceed, he chose the best comprehension strategies that he deemed most effective. He breaks down his strategies by stating the most important one and then breaking it down into small sections allowing the reader to fully understand and absorb the information in small sections, making it easier to remember. It puts these sections of strategies to use before reading. Next in the article are comprehension strategies during and after reading, to further improve knowledge of the text. That aside, he understands that readers who are not experts, or even mediocre, have difficulty organizing what they have already read and that comprehension teaching occurs. In the last pages of the article, it describes how teachers can effectively use comprehension teaching in its two phases with the steps to follow..