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Clues for Comprehension

Enhance your reading skills with active reading techniques such as forward and backward referencing, repetition, antonyms and synonyms, and context clues. By actively predicting, understanding, and inferring, you can enhance your reading speed and comprehension.

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Clues for Comprehension

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  1. Clues for Comprehension There are a number of strategies to use if you are not sure of the meaning of a word, phrase or sentence.

  2. READ ACTIVELY • Effective readers are active readers. • They are constantly thinking about what they are reading and trying to predict what will happen next. • Anticipating what is likely to happen next will help you to read more quickly and to comprehend what you are reading more fully.

  3. FORWARD REFERENCING • Often, authors will directly explain important terms or ideas • Reading the rest of the sentence or paragraph will frequently explain what you don't know.

  4. BACKWARD REFERENCING • Sometimes we don’t understand important terms or ideas because we’ve missed something! • Reading back over earlier sections of the paragraph or text will frequently explain what you don't know.

  5. REPETITION • Frequently, authors repeat the same idea using different words. • If you know what one word means, you can use that to work out an unfamiliar word.

  6. ANTONYMS AND SYNONYMS • Sometimes two similar words are used together, or two opposite words are used together. • We can use the similar word (synonym) and the opposite word (antonym) we do know to work out the word we don't know.

  7. CONTEXT CLUES • If you work out what the general context means, you can use your common sense to tell you that a particular word can only mean one thing. • Make this 'guess' then read on. If what you're reading continues to make sense - you were probably right!

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