comprehension of a text

Comprehension of a text“The New Literacy Set” Project

2015-2017

Comprehension of a text

“Some sound like the gnashing of windmills”

Derek Walkott, “Missing the sea”

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“the gnashing”

Comprehension of words

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send

letter

brother


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Send a letter to your brother


Comprehension of syntax

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horse


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300 horses bike


Comprehension of semantica

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Comprehension


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Furry cat


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“I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills”

Wordsworth, “Daffodils”

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text


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I explore the text

and myself

while reading

the text


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• to recognize pieces of information which are in a text (at a lessical, syntactic and semantic level)

• to select its main concepts

• to summarize the concepts in a map

• to look for links between the concepts

• to recognize what you feel while you explore a text

• to express all this

Comprehension of a text means

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I contain the text within me.

For this I can

- summarize the main contents of the text

- report them using my own words

- “add my wire to the text”, expressing myself, my views, my way of thinking, my way of being

Comprehension of a text means

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“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with hearttrouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently aspossible the news of her husband’s death.It was her sister Josephine who told her, in brokensentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing.Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. Itwas he who had been in the newspaper office whenintelligence of the railroad disaster was received, withBrently Mallard’s name leading the list “killed”. He hadonly taken the time to assure himself of its truth by asecond telegram, and had hastened to forestall any lesscareful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message”

from “The awakening and selected stories”, by Kate Chopin


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