Reading Comprehension Monitoring Strategies
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Reading Comprehension Monitoring Strategies
Read: The Robot That Wouldn't Turn
At robotics club, Mere and Levi were testing a small robot they had built to follow a silver line across the floor. Harrison placed it at the starting mark and pressed the green button. The robot rolled forward, reached the first corner, and continued straight into a stack of soft practice blocks. “That’s not what we programmed,” said Mere. She checked the code on the laptop. One instruction read, “turn after the sensor sees black”. Levi frowned. “But our track is silver. Maybe the sensor can’t see the line.” Harrison reread the instruction sheet. It said the sensor detected a difference between light and dark surfaces. He turned the robot over and noticed a strip of tape covering one sensor. They had added the tape earlier to keep a wire tidy. The group peeled off the tape and tried again. This time, the robot followed the silver line and turned at the corner. Mere grinned. “We didn’t need to rebuild it. We needed to work out which part of our explanation didn’t make sense.” Before packing up, the group wrote down what they had changed and what happened. They knew that record would help them if the robot behaved strangely next time.
Use your reader’s toolkit
Monitoring means checking that the text makes sense as you read. If something feels confusing, pause, reread, look for clues, ask a question, or connect information from different parts.
- Reading every sentence as quickly as possible
- Checking whether you understand and taking action if you do not
- Memorising every detail before continuing
- Skipping any sentence that takes effort
- Reread the sentence and the one before it
- Pause and use clues elsewhere in the text
- Ignore the confusing part and guess without checking
- Start again from the beginning every time
The group removed the tape and tested again.
The robot drove into the blocks.
The group recorded what they changed.
Harrison reread the instruction sheet.
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