ABSTRACT
Monitoring for meaning'Mog wasn't really reading properly, and recognising this, kept turning back to the beginning of the chapter, trying and failing to make the sentences adhere'. Children are able to monitor for sense from an early age, before they begin formal reading instruction. Good readers are active readers who engage with the text as they read and evaluate their understanding both during and after reading. Thus, maybe it is simply necessary to find ways to get poor comprehension monitors to engage with meaning construction when reading. A study by de Sousa and Oakhill did just that. Children with good reading comprehension were not influenced by the instructions: they were equally good at spotting errors whether they were playing at being a detective or simply told the standard instructions. This overview has shown that the ability to evaluate your understanding when reading or listening to text is an important skill.
