What is the objective of comprehension strategies?

Comprehension strategies are instructional methods designed to help students actively engage with and understand written or oral text, and to construct meaning from it. These strategies are used to increase a person's ability to comprehend and retain ideas, information and concepts from text. The primary objective of comprehension strategies is to help readers become more effective in understanding and retaining the information they read, and to be able to apply that knowledge to their own experiences and learning.

Comprehension strategies can be applied to a variety of texts, including narrative text, expository text, poems, and plays. They can also be used to improve comprehension of oral text, such as lectures or speeches.

Some common comprehension strategies include:

* Summarizing - reducing the main ideas of a text into a shorter version

* Paraphrasing - restating the ideas in a text in your own words

* Questioning - generating questions about the text before, during, and after reading

* Predicting - making predictions about what will happen next in the text

* Inferring - drawing conclusions about the text based on evidence in the text

* Visualizing - creating mental images of the events and characters in the text

* Connecting - making connections between the text and your own experiences or other texts

* Synthesizing - combining information from multiple sources to create a new understanding of the text

These are just a few of the many different comprehension strategies that can be used to improve reading comprehension. By teaching students how to use comprehension strategies, teachers can help them become lifelong readers who are able to effectively understand and learn from text.