SIXTH BLOG ENTRY

Comprehension

In a simple and clear way comprehension means the action or capacity to understand something. It means the state of being comprehended or the capacity of the mind to perceive and understand. In other words comprehension is the understanding and interpretation of what is read.

As it mention in the book comprehension involves memory, cognition, and metacognition. Memory is the storing and then recalling and retrieving of thoughts and feelings. Cognition and metacognition are recognized as being lower- andhigher-level thinking. Comprehension is the use of one’s memory andthese leveled thinking processes with the ability to understand or have knowledge about something.

The tree types of comprehension that are stated on the book are:

1. Literal: Literal comprehension is the ability to read something, and then have a real understanding of what you have read.

Example:  Independence Day in El Salvador is September 15^th.

2. Applied: Comparison and contrast comprehension, resulting from making connections to one’s own experience, or read or heard material.

Example: It is well known that El Salvador is a free country since 1821; I think the is partially true because we as a country need the help of other countries to survived.

3. Implied:  it requires the use of reasoning, drawing conclusion about the relationship between the information that are not explicitly stated

Example: analyzing with other citizen all of them conclude that we as country are in the process of be a really independent country as we should have been since 1821.

I think that we need to develop these three types of comprehension because the combination of these three comprehensions is the best way in which we can understand a paragraph or lecture in the best way possible