Pros And Cons Of Reading Comprehension

Introduction

Do students understand what they read? Educators need to guide students to be able to read and understand what they have read. Reading comprehension is an important skill that is critical to be successful in their educational lives. It is an important skill that is needed in every subject area. When students are reading, they make a connection with the text and the prior knowledge of the topic that they are reading about. Comprehension is may not be an easy task but it requires the students to understand language and cognitive skills to understand what they are reading. As that is said, students struggle to create meaning of what they are reading and are not able to comprehend on what they just read.
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress results, “an average of 69% of Students in 4th grade, 71% of adolescents in 8th grade,and 60% of adolescents in 12th grade read below the proficient level, meaning that those Students do not demonstrate strong grade-level reading proficiency” (Melekoglu, 2011, p.249). This states how the reading gap between students who have difficulties with reading comprehension and those who do not increase every year. When students are

But with every great study, there are always limitations. The limitations of this study are inclusive criteria, small-case research (that had no learning disabled students), non-standardized and heterogeneous narrative stories, little higher order comprehension skills acquired, and that most of the conducting studies were made by researchers or graduate students, etc. (Boon, Paal, Hintz, & Cornelius-Freyre, 2015). According to Singleton and Filce (2015), given the increased cognitive demands of reading comprehension at the secondary level, graphic organizers are excellent instructional tools that can be employed successfully for students with disabilities across content