Here are my thoughts:
Fountas and Pinnell (2006), in their book Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, define reading comprehension as “actively working to construct meaning” that is “an ongoing process rather than simply the outcome or product of reading.” Because the goal of a word problem is to understand numerical relationships, comprehending a word problem is the ongoing process of constructing the meaning of quantities and values in a word problem.
Fountas and Pinnell (2006), in their book Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, define reading comprehension as “actively working to construct meaning” that is “an ongoing process rather than simply the outcome or product of reading.” Because the goal of a word problem is to understand numerical relationships, comprehending a word problem is the ongoing process of constructing the meaning of quantities and values in a word problem.
