Comprehension (Prose and Poetry)

Introduction

Comprehension is all about reading and understanding. It also includes the ability for one to process their meaningful text and get to know the meaning by understanding it.

Fundamental Requirements While reading a comprehension, there are few requirements that need to be fulfilled and they are:

• Understanding the deep meaning of the words.
  
  
• The ability to know the exact meaning of the words.
  
  
• The ability to find out inferences from within the paragraph and its data.
  
  
• The ability to successfully answer the questions that are asked in the passage.
  
  
• The ability to catch the important thoughts from the passage provided.
  
  
• Ability to find out about the literary devices that are used in the paragraph and find out about its structure.

Key Points to Remember It is very important to understand the provided passage clearly enough to answer the questions provided.

Here are a few points that the students need to keep in mind and understand.

The Problems + The Solutions Here are the perspectives of a kid, teacher, and parents about the general issues that students face while reading a comprehension. Coming up are the details along with the process to help them.

The perspective of a Student: What it feels to me The frustration of the students while reading a comprehension will come out very generally. Apart from that, there are also facts coming down to the mind of students that screams out loud “I hate reading". Here is the description that the students will have in their mind.

My God! This passage is too big! It is taking me so long to read this. I can’t find an efficient way to get along with everything that is going on.

The perspective of Parents: What I see when I am at home Here are some honest perspectives of parents that come to their mind when they find their kids having trouble with comprehension.

• It is getting really difficult for her to summarize a passage or the book.
  
  
• It is difficult for her to explain about the feeling of the character.
  
  
• He is not very much interested in the story and cannot explain the story either. Also, he finds it tough to analyse the events and putting them accordingly.
  
  

Perspective of Teachers: What I observe in the classroom The things according to the teacher that the students face is:

• Most of the time, the approach is wrong and there is a difficulty for the student to focus on the “right: aspect.
  
  
• Students have time to understand the logical sequence of the story and the events that happen.
  
  
• Often the vocabulary gives them a tough time as a result of which some of the words project out directly.
  
  
• The approach to pick up the key facts is often missing and so is the knowledge needed to keep in mind about the aspects.

Time for a little Practice Here is a short passage for the students. Read it and try to answer the questions without seeking out for the answers.

Passage

Now, Answer the Questions!

Answers

1. Jahanara was the eldest child of Shah Jahan.
2. When Shahjahan was ill, Aurangzeb put him in jail.
3. Jahanara went to jail along with his father.
4. She gave away all her wealth to the poor and needy.
5. The synonyms are:

King: Emperor
Sick: Ill

Recap

• “Comprehension" is all about reading and understanding.
  
  
• It is important to read the whole paragraph before answering the questions.
  
  
• Here, the problems faced by the students are explained using the different perspective of Students. Parents, and Teachers.
  
  
• Things become clear after answering the questions.