Understanding Strategies

Understanding strategies

Introduction

Reading is an activity that we have learned little by little since childhood, starting with basic words in childway in which we use the language and ability we have to speak and write, so that we can also understand what they speak and write us. 

Developing

Reading is an activity that brings a lot in our life, the importance of reading is based on the way to knowledge and freedom, since it allows us to travel along the paths of time and space, as well as knowing and understanding thedifferent societies and their cultures, fills us with experiences, emotions and wisdom, both in our daily lives and in school, university and work. When we read any type of text, we must take into account certain strategies or skills that help to understand what they read.

At the time of obtaining a book, the first thing we enjoy is its cover, the pages, the cover and even the smell of its leaves, calling us attention, as well as in digital texts. By understanding a text it is not only to discover every word, phrase or structure of the text, but rather to make a representation in our mind regarding the text, that is, to create a mental scenario either real or hypothetical and thus the text would come to life, also to theMoment to read we activate previous knowledge, that is, we relate the text to the information we already know about the subject. For a better understanding we must take into account the reading process: Pre -reading, reading and reading.

The pre -reading is known as an exploratory reading, this generates motivation and interest in the text, previous knowledge is reviewed, the graphics are also observed and described, what should be done first is to look over the book or digital text, focusing on usThe title and the cover. Second the index, since we can see how the themes are chained and finally we read the main subtitles, we see the graphics, photographs, pictures and tables, we read the summary and the prologue.

Reading is where it identifies what the main and secondary idea is, where the main idea is where the text gives meaning, for that we can underline every important idea, also in reading is the time to emphasize the word, phrases and prayers avoiding problems of reading and interpretation of the text.

conclusion

In the post reading is where we ask ourselves questions, we use tools to know if it was really understood, using schemes, mental maps, notes, etc. Also in the course of reading we can get the main ideas using bullets, scripts or numbering and then use it and reinforce what we understood, finally we can make conclusions, opinions or criticisms. To understand a text, the management of a broad vocabulary is also taken into account, to understand what we read.