The Importance of Reading Comprehension: A Detailed Report

This report delves into the critical role of reading comprehension in academic and professional success, emphasizing its impact on confidence and educational outcomes. It explores various methods to enhance reading comprehension skills, including practice exercises, understanding comprehension details, and the significance of retention. The report also identifies and discusses common barriers to reading comprehension, such as phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and vocabulary deficiencies. It highlights how these barriers can hinder a student's ability to understand and process written information effectively. Furthermore, the report provides insights into how these challenges can be addressed, offering practical strategies for students to improve their reading abilities and overall learning experience. This report serves as a comprehensive resource for students looking to improve their reading comprehension skills and overcome common obstacles.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Role of reading comprehension..................................................................................................1
Improving reading comprehension with the help of the retention...............................................2
Barriers are mention below..........................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Developing reading comprehension skills is considered as an important as this helps the
students to build their confidence and also improves their academic success (Hung . and Chen,
2018). Present report lay emphasis on the role of reading comprehension and ways to improve
the reading comprehension skills . It also highlights on some barriers of the Reading
comprehension such as Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Fluency Reading ,vocabulary and many
more.
Role of reading comprehension.
Excellent reading comprehension is very crucial as it enhances the effectiveness and
enjoyment of reading and also it assists not only academically but also the professional within
the personal professional life (Lee. And et.al., 2015). For example School environment ,it is
considered as important children that have excellent comprehension skills. As it is mentioned
earlier that reading comprehension is also used within the other subjects such as maths science
and history.
History- Here the students are taught about many significant leaders as benefits throughout such
as Abraham Lincoln ,American civil war and various other important events.
Math students- Students are taught about the various kinds of problems such as word problems
within mathematics. As students who do not have reading comprehension skills ,students will
faces the struggle that describes about what is actually asked and what is said (Zabidin, 2015).
Reading comprehension plays a crucial role as students can understand the concept, and
they can easily improves their quality of education wot the continuous understanding
(Bridgland,. and Takarangi, 2017) .
Improve the reading comprehension
Discuss reading comprehension
Writing one page handout that have all the dealing of the ideas of the individuals among
the reading comprehension can be more helpful. As it involves the ideas about the subject for
example taking notes ,asking question and setting goals. Also to connect the significance
reading comprehension that is something practical as well as relevant to the individuals like
emails, texting and blogs. Share these kinds of the written thoughts that be beneficial o the
students throughout the school year (Spiro, Bruce. and Brewer, 2017) .
Practice
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Practice makes anyone perfect,By telling the students about the importance of the
comprehension and simultaneously giving them tests. Give them essay tests as well as ask them
to write reports. Sometimes student might not be used what can appears to be subjective grading
but it is the responsibility of the tutor to provide the detail about the written answers as well as
reports and also explain to them that they are preparing for the College (Rogowsky, Calhoun.
and Tallal,2016).
Urge thinking before reading
Thinking before reading assist the students to be selective rather than to trying to comprehend
each and every sentence. They need to read the questions from the book before they are begun
reading as it must helps them when to focus and when to skim it (Bridgland. and
Takarangi,2017) .
There is vital role of comprehension and reading in improving learning. They both are
useful in gaining knowledge about many topics. When students are able to understand they
quickly grasp things and apply it in their learning. However, by reading student gets to know
what is useful and not. Besides this, they understand concept in effective way and remember it
for long time. It allows them to inherit more knowledge and skills. Moreover, they make it
understand to others as well. In addition to it, retention power is improved only when reading is
proper (Hung, . and Chen, 2018).
Reading comprehension can be defined as the ability to read out text in clear and
understanding language. It is the process in which the other person must be engage in clearly
reading out text so that it can be understandable by other person. ability to comprehend text is
influenced by readers' skills and their ability to process information. If word recognition is
difficult, students use too much of their processing capacity to read individual words, which
interferes with their ability to comprehend what is read. In this person must also have a good
command over language when reading out loudly in classroom (Rogowsky, Calhoun. and
Tallal,2016).
Improving reading comprehension with the help of the retention.
Vocabulary can be majorly responsible for the reading comprehension problems from the
research as it is clear that it around 60 % of the problems becomes solved.
Barriers are mention below
Transition
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It is considered as the process of changing from one state to another as it considers as the one
condition to the another. In this phase progression of the students from foundation to the
intermediate phase (Hung, . and Chen, 2018).
Phonemic awareness-
The ability to identify, notice ,hear, manipulate individuals sound phenomenons within
spoken words. This considers in order to read print as the individuals must ware of how sounds
works within words (Yeari, 2017).
Phonics
It is considered as the relationship between the sound ( Phonemes) and printed letters
(Graphemes) within language. Students Must learn to decode printed language as well as
translate print into the sounds (Hung, . and Chen, 2018).
Fluency
This considers as the ability to read texts accurately with more understanding. Fluency is a
crucial factor within how students comprehend texts. It is also defined as the capacity to read
accurately at a fluency rate that depends on the learner's grade that leads to an enhanced fluency
rate that are depends on the student's grade level that leads to an enhanced level that leads to an
increased reading comprehension (Spiro, Bruce. and Brewer, 2017) .
Reading vocabulary
As per the authors there is a significant effect on the achievement as they have the significant
effect on the achievements as well as this is strongly related to the reading comprehension. As
there is expected from a student no only read a word to words but also makes the meaning of
that particular word. The learners must also able to use as well as understand the identified words
from a text (Bridgland. and Takarangi,2017) .
Word recognition
It is the capacity of a reader to identify written words correctly as well as virtually effortlessly
as it refers to a word called isolated word recognition as it entails as an ability to the leader to
identify words individually from a list such as Without the advantage of surrounding words for
the contextual help (Hung, . and Chen, 2018)
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Reading comprehension
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The Purpose of the reading comprehension from the printed pages is to know the meaning of
those collaborative words. It is considered as an active process that needed as thoughtful
interaction among the reader and text. It is also known as the thinking process that can be viewed
as a issue solving process (Lee. And et.al., 2015)
. Reading comprehend is explain as the ultimate goal of listening and reading as it allows
one to acquire information to experience as well as aware of other worlds called fictional
worlds . To achieve academic success it is necessary to communicate successfully. The aim of
reading text is got an overall picture of the text rather than retrieving the meaning of single
worlds or sentences . Thus, when the students experiences comprehension problems means that
the overall text sense cannot be established (Rogowsky, Calhoun. and Tallal,2016).
The Purpose of the reading comprehension from the printed pages is to know the
meaning of those collaborative words. It is considered as an active process that needed as
thoughtful interaction among the reader and text. It is also known as the thinking process that can
be viewed as a issue solving process .as it refers to a word called isolated word recognition as it
entails as an ability to the leader to identify words individually from a list such as Without the
advantage of surrounding words for the contextual (Spiro, Bruce. and Brewer, 2017) .
CONCLUSION
From the above study it had been concluded that the reading comprehension skills and
retention is very crucial as also it assists not only academically but also the professional within
the personal professional life. There are various ways to improve that such as through practicing,
understand the details of the comprehension. It also laid focuse on the barrier such as Phonemic
awareness to identify, notice in order to read print works within words and Phonics that
considers relationship between the sound and printed letters. Fluency is known as to read texts
accurately with more understanding and many more .
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