Role of Comprehension and Retention in Learning

This report discusses the role of comprehension and retention in enhancing the quality of learning and academic achievements. It evaluates the obstacles in building these skills and provides strategies to overcome them.

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main body..................................................................................................................................3
a. Role of building comprehension and Retention and increasing quality in learning.......3
Evaluate obstacles in building comprehension and retention................................................5
Draw Conclusion....................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Reading skills is the ability which helps an individual to understand the text in written form.
This helps an individual in identifying facts in written text, make judgements and find
connection between passages and situations (Pearson, 2014). In this report role of retention
and comprehension in enhancing quality of learning and improve academic achievements
will be discussed. Evaluation of obstacle in building these skills will be included. At last
conclusion will be drawn based on above points.
Main body
a. Role of building comprehension and Retention and increasing quality in learning
Reading skills help an individual to interact and extract meaning from written form of
communication. There are different skills which will help person in comprehending the
message in the written content. These skills play different roles in enhancing
comprehension and retention so that quality of learning can be increased to achieve
academic results (Cheng and Good, 2009). Roles are as follows:
Decoding: This is one of basic role that comprehension reading helps students in
attainment of academic results. This is based on Phonemic awareness in which it helps
individuals connects words and images related to it. This ensures that sounds students
makes is an important role helps in retaining the reading course and in achievements of
the academic results.
Fluency: By this role students are able to recognise words at good pace by this they
recognising the word without decoding it. In the students group the words together with
the help of meaning and read out that word aloud which increases their reading fluency
because it is one of the most important skills in Reading comprehension. By this role

student has the ability to recognise insights of the comprehension without making too
many error.
Vocabulary: In order to understand what an individual is reading it is necessary that
student understand the meaning of words as well with the help of vocabulary learning of
difficult words in everyday life becomes easy for student. This rule helps students to learn
meaning of new words daily while reading comprehension with the help of this it
becomes easy for them to achieve their academic results (McKeown and Curtis, 2014).
Sentence construction: understanding that how sentences of frame is important in
writing but it is equally important in Reading comprehension as well. this helps students
to link up the sentences with the meaning of passage and entire idea. It also improves
ability to connect with different ideas and overall writing text. This can also help
individual in construction of sentences which can help them in their overall academic
session
Reasoning knowledge: it is important that we the village with the idea what they are
reading it is important that students have prior knowledge about the comprehension. This
role helped them to pull out meaning between the lines even they are not correctly spelt.
This helps them to make conclusions and build their knowledge. This roles help not even
in reading skills but in overall experiences in personal life which is important
(Mendenhall and Johnson, 2010).
Working attention: this is one of the major roles that comprehension and attention plays
In Reading. Working memory allows individual to hold information so that they can
increase their knowledge and gain meaning from reading. This helps students with the
ability to self monitor while reading so that they don't have to read it again. This leads to
less confusion and correct extraction of information from the reading comprehension
which leads to attainment of academic desires.
Appeal to Senses: while reading it is important that individual Inc their senses because
it's provide reinforcement for students in growing comprehension and attention skills.
This role helped students to read passages in loud voice and ask question their doubts.

Evaluate obstacles in building comprehension and retention
Reading comprehension is a multi process where individual construct meaning as read out
the text (Ausubel, 2012). Reading comprehension is effective is leaders is active and have
prior knowledge about the reading material and does there are lot of problems related
with reading comprehension, some of them are as follows
Making connections: While reading comprehension it is important that readers make
connection with the writing styles but individuals start making predictions. There is a
need that students are excited about what they are reading by giving some background
knowledge about the passage. This helps them to get connected with the meaning of the
reading and connect better while they are reading. This ensures that the level and is speed
also increase while reading comprehension and they overcome the issues related with
that.
Decoding difficulties: Students should need to make lot of efforts to decode the meaning
of the text and understand it fully. This is one of the major issues that student fees while
reading passages which is recording its meaning. For the student needs to make practice
of reading comprehension in day to day life so that this difficulty can be overcome
Reading goals: there is a need a student set reading goals on daily basis so that they can
analyse the main idea of the passage. This is one of the major drawback while building
comprehension and attention in Reading skills. To overcome this it is important that
students keep in mind about their academic results and work in direction to achieve them
(Cogmen and Saracaloglu, 2009).
Getting prior knowledge: this is one of the obstacles that student fees in Reading
comprehension is that they don't have any prior knowledge of background about the
information. It is not always accessible that students are backed up with the background
in reading skills and this makes it difficult to extract the exact meaning. This also creates
roadblock in the bath of achieving the desired results and Academic (Ozuru, Dempsey
and McNamara, 2009).
Vocabulary it is important that students have access and knowledge of vocabulary so that
they can understand the complete meaning of comprehension and retain it for long. This is
one of the major difficulty that individual faces because it is somehow impossible for a
person to learn each and every vocabulary and retain it for long. There are different online

dictionaries and sources which help students get the meaning on spot and related with the
context of the comprehension (Yildirim, Yildiz and Ates, 2011).
Identify main idea: it is difficult for students to identify the main idea and reading skills in
and as this is one of the main issues in comprehension and attention skills. Students are not
able to identify the main idea and reading will not be able to understand the big picture and
extract some meaningful information out of it which affect their performance in academics.
All the above point shows the obstacles that pertain in building comprehension on retention
in reading skills for student. There is a need that these difficulties are overcome and there is
increase in quality of learning so that academy results of students are higher.
Draw Conclusion
From the above discussion it is clear that there are difficulties in building
comprehension and retention in reading skills which can help students in achieving
academic results. Above session shows some difficulties which can be overcome by
person so that it's reading skills can be improved in qualitative terms. There are
different strategies by which comprehension and attention can be increased and above
difficulties can be overcome. First is monitor which means that students need to
analyse what they are reading and ask questions so that they can get the clear
understanding of the information ( Lei and et. al., 2010). It is equally important that
students take notes while reading so that they get the hint and retain the information
for long (Rahmani and Sadeghi, 2011).
Conclusion
The above board it is concluded that reading skills in is an ability but help individuals to
connect with the written text. This insures that person is able to read and understand the
complete idea which is in written form and retain it for longer.There are different roles played
by comprehension and retention in improving quality of learning of students like decoding
what is based on phonemic awareness. Others are fluency, vocabulary, sentence construction,
reasoning knowledge, Etc. which are important in achieving Academy Results for students.

There're obstacle also like setting reading goals, difficulties and recording, Megan
connection, Etc. these need to be overcome in order to improve the quality of learning and
those students going to T their desired results in the Academics. In the last conclusions are
also drawn on the basis of the above discussion which can help students to overcome the
difficulties and improve their reading skills.

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