The Reading Process

1. The Reading Process

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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 student’s metacognition. • Students begin to internalize the ability to ask questions while reading.

6. 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.

7. 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).