Understanding Observable Reading Behaviors How This Knowledge Informs Your Teaching & Your...

Understanding Observable Reading Behaviors

How This Knowledge Informs Your Teaching

& Your Understanding of The Reading Process

“None of the exemplary teachers

were tied to commercial materials.

Exemplary teachers taught children, and

typical teachers taught programs.”

Richard Allington

Observable Reading BehaviorsUnderlying Cognitive Processes

Reading Behaviors that YOU can See

In-the-head Strategies

Observable Reading BehaviorsUnderlying Cognitive Processes

hesitates rereads looks at picture looks at print rereads after an error rereads & makes

another attempt rereads & corrects

an error

Self-monitoring Self-monitoring Searching for meaning cues Searching for visual cues Cross-checking on cues

Cross-checking on cues

Self-correcting

The Reading Process

Understanding How We Read

The Reading Process is an interaction between the text and the

reader... who uses “in-the-head” strategies or

cognitive processes… when using the cue systems to problem solve

on continuous text to make meaning

The Reading Process:An Interaction Between Text & Reader

As a review… What are the observable reading behaviors? What are in-the-head or cognitive processes? What is the reading process? What are the cues?

Observable Reading BehaviorsUnderlying Cognitive Processes

hesitates rereads looks at picture looks at print rereads after an error rereads & makes

another attempt rereads & corrects

an error

Self-monitoring Self-monitoring Searching for meaning cues Searching for visual cues Cross-checking on cues

Cross-checking on cues

Self-correcting

What is the Reading Process?A continuous process of the reader...

Sampling or Searching Predicting Monitoring Cross-checking on cues Self-Correcting by using sources of

information: Meaning Cues,

Structure Cues, &/or

Visual Cues

What are the Cues? Meaning - Semantics Structure - Syntax Visual - Graphophonic

M S V

References Clay, M., (1991). Observation Survey:

Observing Young Readers. Clay, M. (1991). Becoming Literate: The

Construction of Inner Control