Reader, Text, Situation -Comprehend-

 Reading comprehension is a crucial step in the advancement of education. Strategies and techniques for teaching reading comprehension can be introduced as early as Kindergarten. Students building reading comprehension is something that does not come naturally, it must be taught. As a teacher, it is important to implement strategies and techniques as early as possible in order for your students to succeed within your classroom. In the article, "The Comprehension Matrix: A Tool for Designing Comprehension Instruction", Sharon Ruth Gill discusses how the comprehension matrix provides teachers with a way of dealing with the overwhelming amount of information available on the teaching of comprehension by helping them organize activities into pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading. I completely agree with Gill in the experiences that illustrate the three major factors that affect comprehension. 1. the reader, 2. the text, and 3. the situation. If one of these three were left out when learning reading comprehension, the process could not be done. It takes the reader looking at the text and making connections, asking questions, and making inferences in order to figure out the situation. All students can learn to read text while comprehending at the same time, but this is a long process that must be taught as early as possible.