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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Comprehension of a text
“the gnashing”
Comprehension of words
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Comprehension of a text
send
letter
brother
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Comprehension of a text
Send a letter to your
brother
Comprehension of syntax
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Comprehension of a text
horse
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Comprehension of a text
300 horses bike
Comprehension of semantica
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Comprehension of a text
Comprehension
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Comprehension of a text
Furry cat
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Comprehension of a text
“I wandered lonely as a
cloud
That floats on high o’er
vales and hills”
Wordsworth, “Daffodils”
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Comprehension of a text
text
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Comprehension of a text
I explore the text
and myself
while reading
the text
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Comprehension of a text means
• 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
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Comprehension of a text means
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
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Comprehension of a text
“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart
trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as
possible the news of her husband’s death.
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken
sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing.
Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It
was he who had been in the newspaper office when
intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with
Brently Mallard’s name leading the list “killed”. He had
only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a
second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less
careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message”
from “The awakening and selected stories”, by Kate Chopin