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Reading Strategies
This interaction with a text helps not only in decoding information, but also in enjoying the text for its own sake. In order to understand facts, extract information or derive maximum enjoyment, one needs to comprehend or understand the text.
Guidelines for Reading Comprehension
Read the passages carefully. Read through the questions. Very often clues are present in the questions. Diagrams, tables and flow charts point to some relations between events like causes, effects or classification. Flow charts often require sequencing of events or processes.
Types of Reading Passage
Passages for reading comprehension could be classified into three main types.
Factual Passages - Sample
Good peer pressure, on the other hand, is being pushed into something that is good for you. You may be didn’t have the courage to do or it just didn’t cross your mind but acting that way has proved beneficial.
Literary Passage - Sample
The Best advice I ever had came from on of the greatest souls the world has ever known - Mahatma Gandhi- on a sunny afternoon a decade ago. Most people pass through a period of anguish when their belief in humanity is at a low ebb. I was in such a period.
Discursive Passage - Sample
Western countries do have desirable elements worth copying. But are we taking in those positive elements? No, we seem to be merely diving into the external glitter of the West.