The Reading Process

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The Reading Process
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Factors which lead to increased comprehension of
texts

• Creating a book rich environment
• Modeling and explicit instruction
• Needs-based instruction
• Establishing a home-school connection
• Developing motivation

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The Reading process

• Before Reading
• Previews the text
• Activates prior knowledge
• Sets a purpose for reading
• Makes predictions

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The Reading process

• During Reading
• Focuses attention
• Monitors their comprehension by
• asking questions
• rereading
• Interacting with the text (note-taking, post-it
  notes. response journals)
• Makes personal connections
• Creates pictures
• Checks previous predictions, makes new
  predictions

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The importance of questioning

• Questioning strategies allow students to
  comprehend what they read and to become aware of
  what they are and what they are not comprehending
• Questioning strategies help develop students
  metacognition.
• Students begin to internalize the ability to ask
  questions while reading.

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The Reading process

• After reading
• Reflects on what was read.
• Summarizes the major ideas.
• Interprets and evaluates the ideas in the text.
• Synthesizes information from a variety of texts
  to produce their own opinions.
• Moves beyond the text and applies new
  information/knowledge to a broader social
  context.

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Active readers

• Activate relevant prior knowledge (schema)
  before, during and after reading text (Anderson
  and Pearson, 1984).
• Create visual and other sensory images from text
  during and after reading (Pressley, 1976).
• Draw inferences from text to form conclusions,
  make critical judgments, and create unique
  interpretations (Hansen 1981).
• Ask questions of themselves, the authors, and the
  texts they read (Raphael, 1984).
• Determine the most important ideas and themes in
  a text (Palinscar and Brown, 1984).
• Synthesize what they read (Brown, Day, and Jones,
  1983).