Reading bridge - TOOL -build knowledge - PROCESS -cognitive(mental) process -skema - NOT A BASIC SKILL -decode pronounce -encode

de put a meaning - COMPLEX PROCESS -test memories, knowledge -gistframework for understanding - FLUENT READING IS NOT THE SAME AS DECODING - SITUATIONALY BOUND -contextualized -topic bound - PROFICIENT READERS SHARE SOME KEY CHARACTERISTICS Good Readers are - Mentally engaged - Motivated to read and to learn - Socially active around reading tasks - Strategic in monitoring the interactive process Selective reader dont see everything that is in front of her eyes Fast reader dont see everything immediately Reading comprehension - Process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning - Elements Reader Text Activity Identify Symbol Decoding Symbol Understanding Symbol Interpreting Symbol Efficient Reader able to make sense with the least amount of time and effort Effective Reader makes sense of what he reads

HOW TO RESPOND TO WHAT YO READ - Time - Attention - Energy - Purpose Stages of Reading Acquisition by Jeanne Chall STAGE 0 Pre-reading (Ages 0-6) - Familiarity with the language and its speech sounds - Conscious of sound similarity between words - Alphabet, imitation reading, experimentation with letters and learning sounds - Best time to motivate the learner to read because of his enthusiasm STAGE 1 Initial Rerading (Ages 6-7) - Decoding stage - Relationship between sounds and letters - Sound-spelling relation - Alphabetical code - Consonants & Vowels - Integral part of beginning reading STAGE 8) 2 Confirmation and fluency (Ages 7Word Recognition Speed reading glued to the print Real reading stage

STAGE 3 Reading for Learning the New (Ages 9-13) - Expanded vocabularies, built background and world knowledge and develop strategic habits - Motivation for reading changes (learn) - Mastered the code and finds it easy to sound unfamiliar words - Begin the study of subject matter and use of informational texts STAGE 4 Multiple Viewpoints - Analyses texts critically and comprehends multiple points of view - Reacts critically BOTTOM-UP - You have limited background knowledge about the reading material and you greatly depend on the authors ideas TOP DOWN - You greatly depend on or use your own schemata to understand the text INTERACTIVE

STAGE 5 Construction and Reconstruction - Highest level of reading - Read selectively and form his own opinions - Constructs his knowledge from that of other readers based on analysis and synthesis - Intellectual inclination and capacity of the reader

WHY IS READING IMPORTANT? - Affects lives - Helps learn things not taught in school - Explores new worlds - Increases and Expands vocabulary - Increases and improves writing - Allows work comparisons WHY SHOULD I FURTHER READ - For survival - For learning - For pleasure - For Therapy Reading -> Process -> Product Process: 1. Perpetual learning goals - objects 2. Cognitive Learning - comparing 3. Associative Learning letter & sound 4. Affective learning emotion Product: Human Learning Schemata stored knowledge Schema symbol/ metal representation of this knowledge in your brain Levels of Reading 1. Literal 1 2. Inferential 3/4 3. Evaluation -4 4. Integrative 5 5. Creative 5 Final Outcome: Comprehension McWhorters reading process 1. Recognize the printed language symbols 2. Attach or assign meanings to symbols based on schemata 3. Fuse or relate your schema 4. Adjust, modify or create

Most comprehensive direction Permits you to shift from top down to bottom up vice versa