GWB Reading Strategies

The reading process...

What does what I'm reading mean to me - transaction
Reader uses complex plans or strategies to make meaning from text:

Reading Strategies

• sampling
• inferring
  
• predicting

based on knowledge and background experiences - cyclical and integral processes

• confirming
• integrating

Constructing meaning:

• Your purpose for reading
• The relat'p of what you're reading to your view of the world

Cueing systems

1. graphophonic - relat'p between oral and written language
   
2. syntactic - relat'p between words, sentences, and paragraphs - word order, tense, number, gender, grammar - Ability to ask, "Does this sound right?"
   
3. semantic - relat'p between language and meaning
   
4. pragmatic

I remember very clearly someone asking me - well, how do you know its' right? And I said, I just sounds right - and I remember as a kid, when doing grammar exercises - just instinctively knowing what was right, because it just sounded right - and i wondered why it didn't just sound right for other kids - why did I have that and they didn't was it reading that gave me that knowledge? Is there a carry over to ESL and language acquisition?

Experienced readers balance the use of strategies and systems - Beginning readers need help in integrating both in their reading processes.

GWB: 4 assumptions

4 assumptions about language, thinking, & learners (pg. 20)

1. reading is an active process
2. reading is a language process
3. Readers have knowledge about language
4. authors have knowledge about language

Both reader and author are active in constructing meaning - transactional

Language cueing systems are the sources of information that readers use in their transactions with text as they seek to understand (25)

• graphophonic - sounds & written form
  
• syntactic - the way human organize the sentences of a language in relation to other sentences - whether for purposes of reading, writing, speaking, listening - is its syntax
  
• semantic - meaning - therefore influenced by culture & beliefs
• pragmatic - context
  

All of these cueing systems work within the socio-cultural context of reader/author - pragmatic system - language occurs in a context - how we use it or interpret it, depends on context

Reading Strategies

• initiating & sampling strategies - look at title - sample some text and pictures
  
• predicting strategies - inferencing - guess based on previous knowledge
  
• confirming strategies - was guess right or wrong - leads to self-correcting
  

sampling happens in all perceptual processes - listening for eg - allows senses not to be overwhelmed

seems like many of the strategies are happening without reader consciously attending to them - automatic?

cyclical processes