Comprehending comprehension
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 11:00
in Psychology & Sociology
What makes a good reader? First, you have to know how to read the words on a page and understand them -- but there's a higher-level step to reading comprehension. You have to tie together the words over time, maintaining their order and meaning in your memory, so that you can understand phrases, sentences, paragraphs and extended texts.