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COMPREHENSION

GENERAL VS. LEGAL


DR.SWATI SRIVASTAVA
 The word ‘comprehend’ literally means to understand
and interpret the meaning of the paragraph. Every
passage revolves around the central idea, thus it
becomes important to identify the central idea
which is implicit in the key sentences of the
paragraph.
 Literal meaning
 Inferential meaning
 Evaluative meaning
Literal Comprehension

 Recognition of Details
 Recognition of Main Ideas
 Recognition of a Sequence
 Recognition of Comparison
 Recognition of Cause and Effect Relationships
 Recognition of Character Traits
Reorganization
 Reorganization
 Classifying
 Outlining
 Summarizing
 Synthesizing
Inferential Comprehension
 Inferring Supporting Details
 Inferring Main Idea
 Inferring Sequence
 Inferring Comparisons
 Inferring Cause and Effect Relationships
 Inferring Character Traits
 Predicting Outcomes
evaluation
 Judgments of Reality or Fantasy
 Judgments of Fact or Opinion
 Judgments of Adequacy and Validity
 Judgments of Appropriateness
 Judgments of Worth, Desirability and
Acceptability
comprehension
 ability to process text, understand its meaning and
integrate.
 process the text written and answer accordingly.
 The word ‘comprehend’ literally means to understand
and interpret the meaning of the paragraph.
 Every passage revolves around the central idea,
thus it becomes important to identify the central
idea which is implicit in the key sentences of the
paragraph.
How to find topic/heading
 The topic/heading of the passage is derived from
this central idea only.
 The passage can be of any kind. length of passages
approximately ranges from 500-800 words.

it can be a narrative of a story, a bibliography or any


paragraph containing, static information about a certain
topic
questions asked from reading
comprehensions
 Heading of the passage, which can be easily derived
once you identify the central idea of the paragraph.
 Direct –questions asked from the static details of the
passage. The answer to such a question can be easily
picked from the text of the paragraph directly.
 Application – these are the questions which are based
on the inference of the passage. They can be answered
from the implied understanding of the paragraph.
 Author’s view– students are asked to identify the tone
or view of the author in the paragraph.
 Vocabulary– these are the words used in the paragraph
whose meaning, synonym or antonym may be asked.
Steps to solve reading comprehension

 Step 1-Firstly, read the questions carefully. This will provide you with
the idea about what you have to search for in the paragraph.
 Step 2-Secondly, read the passage in a quick manner and try to find
the relevant answers to the questions read before.
 Step 3-Thirdly, now when you have read the paragraph, read the
questions again properly and try to answer the question. In this step,
you will be able to find the answer to direct questions and mark
them in the paragraph
 Step 4-Fourthly, read the unanswered questions carefully and read
the relevant portion of the paragraph to find and interpret the
answers.
 Step 5-Fifthly, in order to answer the vocabulary question read the
sentence in which the concerned word is used and try to interpret the
meaning of the sentence with such word.
Strategy to solve reading comprehension
questions

 Try to find out the main idea of the paragraph and understand the tone
used by the author.

 PESSIMISTIC ,OPTIMISTIC ,INFORMATIVE


 eliminate reading the irrelevant paragraphs.

 Try to devise a logical inference of the passage. This will help in


answering the application based questions.

 Focus on the sentences containing vocabulary questions so as to


understand their meaning.
 READING TIME 7 TO 8 MNTS
THANK YOU

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