The paper presents the author’s research path about teaching children to understand written texts.The original beginning of the research consists in the discovery of a number and variety of text com-prehension errors, found in empirical research, and designed some sprains in reading comprehensionprocesses. Similar mistakes, and similar processes, especially making inferences, have been recognizedin the understanding of iconic texts by children in preschool years. Starting from these findings, somedidactic activities to foster comprehension have been designed and implemented: foremost an indi-vidualized interview about text was tested, and later collaborative methodologies have been also pos-itively tested. Among these, one is relating to the ability to solve textual difficulties, and a second oneto improve reader's strategies. A particularly important result, and an implicit implication of suchresearch, is the educational implication of the interview method for the timely assessment and eval-uation of comprehension. This experience confirmed the methodology of ‘thinking aloud by thereader’, realised through the interview, as an educational/didactic device for stimulating comprehen-sion because it is capable of making any reader active. Thinking aloud thus became a tool for stimu-lating and enhancing the capacity for self-correction, reasoning and checking comprehension. Thelast part of the research focuses on a second mode and a different approach to teaching comprehen-sion: the well-known Reciprocal Teaching.

"Imparare dagli errori". Linee di ricerca didattica sulla lettura-comprensione / Cardarello, Roberta. - In: LIBRI E RIVISTE D'ITALIA. - ISSN 0024-2683. - 1-2:1(2022), pp. 120-127.

"Imparare dagli errori". Linee di ricerca didattica sulla lettura-comprensione

Roberta Cardarello
2022

Abstract

The paper presents the author’s research path about teaching children to understand written texts.The original beginning of the research consists in the discovery of a number and variety of text com-prehension errors, found in empirical research, and designed some sprains in reading comprehensionprocesses. Similar mistakes, and similar processes, especially making inferences, have been recognizedin the understanding of iconic texts by children in preschool years. Starting from these findings, somedidactic activities to foster comprehension have been designed and implemented: foremost an indi-vidualized interview about text was tested, and later collaborative methodologies have been also pos-itively tested. Among these, one is relating to the ability to solve textual difficulties, and a second oneto improve reader's strategies. A particularly important result, and an implicit implication of suchresearch, is the educational implication of the interview method for the timely assessment and eval-uation of comprehension. This experience confirmed the methodology of ‘thinking aloud by thereader’, realised through the interview, as an educational/didactic device for stimulating comprehen-sion because it is capable of making any reader active. Thinking aloud thus became a tool for stimu-lating and enhancing the capacity for self-correction, reasoning and checking comprehension. Thelast part of the research focuses on a second mode and a different approach to teaching comprehen-sion: the well-known Reciprocal Teaching.
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"Imparare dagli errori". Linee di ricerca didattica sulla lettura-comprensione / Cardarello, Roberta. - In: LIBRI E RIVISTE D'ITALIA. - ISSN 0024-2683. - 1-2:1(2022), pp. 120-127.
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