comprehension
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"Comprehension strategy instruction helps students make connections, ask questions, visualize, synthesize and monitor their thinking about word problems," Orosco and Reed wrote.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024
Comprehension will have to wait but coping cannot be postponed.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2023
It was possible to test ChatGPT because five of the subtests on the Verbal IQ scale—Vocabulary, Similarities, Comprehension, Information and Arithmetic—can be presented in written form.
From Scientific American • Mar. 28, 2023
Comprehension means being proactive as a reader: looking up words you do not know, taking meaningful notes, asking questions, understanding the rhetorical situation of the text, and so on.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Comprehension dawned slowly on Colonel Cathcart; when it came, he was struck dumb.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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