Petersons Technique for Long Passage Reading Comprehension
Read the introduction.
Read the first half of the passage.
Answer as many questions as you can.
Use the remaining questions to guide your reading of the rest of the passage.
Questions are arranged in order of the passage, so when you reach one that refers to something you havent read yet, thats your cue to go back to the passage.
Types of Reading Passages
Natural science : passage topics may include biology, chemistry, geology, and other sciences. Some passages may address these issues from a social or historical perspective.
Social science : passage topics may include history, social and political movements, and other issues involving people.
Humanities : passage topics may include poetry, literature, languages, philosophy, and other issues related to thinking and writing.
Narrative : memoir or a personal account of an event in someones life.
Paired Passages : one section which contains two passages, written by different authors, each of who addresses the same topic from a different point of view.
Common Reading Comprehension Question Types:
Primary Purpose/Main Point: ask about the main points in a reading passage .
Detail : test your understanding of what is explicitly mentioned in the passage.
Inference: ask you to read between the lines and recognize what the author implies in the passage.
Vocabulary-in-Context: test your understanding of how certain words are used in the passage
Why?: ask for the reason the author does or says something specific in the passage
Tone: ask how the author expresses her or her ideas
Petersons Technique for Paired Passages
Follow Petersons Technique for Critical Reading for the first passage.
Answer questions related to the first passage only.
Follow Petersons Technique for Critical Reading for the second passage.
Answer questions related to the second passage only.
Answer the Comparison questions.
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