1. Self-Monitoring Comprehension and Repairing Understanding
Hong Duong and Amanda McDaniel

2. What is Self-Monitoring Comprehension?
Readers are able to understand what they are reading, and notice what they do not understand
Help students become conscious of their own thinking and teaching them what to do about when they are confused.
If they don’t understand, they need to know different strategies to help them make sense of what they are reading

3. How to Repair Comprehension?
First stop and ask these questions:
Does this make sense?
Do I know what all the words mean?
Can I picture in my mind what is happening?
What do I think will happen next?
Was my prediction correct? Why or why not?

4. How to Repair Comprehension?
When students continue to have problems
understanding, teach them the fix-up strategy:
Reread the sentence or paragraph to help me figure out what a word means or what the author is saying (context clues)
Read ahead the next sentence or two to see if it helps me understand
Retell in my own words what I just read

5. How to Repair Comprehension?
Think and connect what I read to what I already know and my own experiences
Use the dictionary, computer, and etc. to define unfamiliar words.
If students are still having trouble understanding, they should ask someone for help.

6. FLOW CHART OF COMPREHENSION-MONITORING BEHAVIORS

7. FLOW CHART OF COMPREHENSION-MONITORING BEHAVIORS

8. Reference
Frey, N. (2007). Reading for information in elementary school. Saddle River: Pearson. Wilhelm, J. (2003, March). Navigating meaning: Using think-alouds to help readers monitor comprehension. Retrieved from