EDST2003 Lecture 4: 03 4

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WEEK 3 Reading Comprehension and Issues in Understanding Secondary Literacy Texts Reading:
Reading for Understanding (Snow, 2002)
KEY TERMS
Reading Comprehension process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning
through interaction and involvement with written language. Consists of three main
components: the reader the text and activity/purpose for reading.
Variability teachers need to consider the variabilities that occur across the 3 components
of reading comprehension i.e. reader, text & activity and the contexts in which they occur
and be proactive in addressing these variabilities through teaching and learning
instruction.
OVERALL ARGUMENTS
The components of reading comprehension:
o Thereadertheybringtheircognitivecapabilities,motivations,knowledge,
linguistic and discourse knowledge, knowledge of comprehension strategies and experience
o Thetextthereadercanconstructvariousrepresentationsofeachindividualtext that are crucial for
comprehension/interpretation. These representations include; surface-code (exact wording), the
text base idea uits represetig the text’s eaig ad mental models (the way in which info is
processed for meaning
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