Books for reading comprehension as an high schooler?
I’m in 11th grade (first semester in) and my reading comprehension is a little bit below grade level, any book recommendations? I wanna start reading outside of school hours or during breaks to boost my comprehension. 🙂
Lord of the Rings is excellent for this. They’re engrossing and have vocabulary that isn’t quite “modern” anymore. They’re certainly not a hard read, but the amount of details in each chapter can make them challenging (in a fun way!)
MoKnowsNothing322 on
I’m not being snarky, but a dictionary could help. Look up the words that you don’t know the meaning of or that you have trouble understanding why they’re there when a different word can be used. Other than that, choose books that sound interesting to you. If you read things that you find interesting and enjoy, you’ll become a reader. 😉 To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher In The Rye, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, or Lords Of Discipline by Pat Conroy are all pretty good. 😊
masson34 on
Lord of the Flies
A Kindle for reading books has built in dictionary. Can join your library, Libby app on your phone, free ebooks delivered to your kindle effortlessly. US based not sure what other countries offer.
vagrantheather on
You’ll boost your comprehension more with thinking and talking/writing about a book more than you will by choosing specific books. When reading take frequent pauses to ask yourself what’s going on, why are the characters doing what they’re doing, and what might happen next. After a book come up with things to say about the plot, the characters, the environment, the dialogue. If you’re struggling to come up with thoughts, see what other people say about the book and consider if you agree with them or not. You can do this with any book 🙂
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Lord of the Rings is excellent for this. They’re engrossing and have vocabulary that isn’t quite “modern” anymore. They’re certainly not a hard read, but the amount of details in each chapter can make them challenging (in a fun way!)
I’m not being snarky, but a dictionary could help. Look up the words that you don’t know the meaning of or that you have trouble understanding why they’re there when a different word can be used. Other than that, choose books that sound interesting to you. If you read things that you find interesting and enjoy, you’ll become a reader. 😉 To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher In The Rye, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, or Lords Of Discipline by Pat Conroy are all pretty good. 😊
Lord of the Flies
A Kindle for reading books has built in dictionary. Can join your library, Libby app on your phone, free ebooks delivered to your kindle effortlessly. US based not sure what other countries offer.
You’ll boost your comprehension more with thinking and talking/writing about a book more than you will by choosing specific books. When reading take frequent pauses to ask yourself what’s going on, why are the characters doing what they’re doing, and what might happen next. After a book come up with things to say about the plot, the characters, the environment, the dialogue. If you’re struggling to come up with thoughts, see what other people say about the book and consider if you agree with them or not. You can do this with any book 🙂