Introduction to Critical Reading Flashcards
decoding and understanding written texts
Reading
According to ________________ Reading is decoding and understanding written texts
Cline et al (2006)
Decoding involves three skills:
- phonological awareness
- alphabetic knowledge
- orthographic knowledge
ability to segment sounds, rhyme, and identify syllables.
Phonological awareness
understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds
Alphabetic knowledge, or The Alphabetic Principle,
understanding of the writing system in order to represent language this can include spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
Orthographic knowledge
▪ to be entertained
▪ to get information
▪ to understand ideas or theories
▪ to understand the author’s viewpoint
▪ to support one’s view
Purposes of Reading
set of circumstances (social, cultural, political, historical) that affect the meaning and interpretation of a text
Context of Reading
▪ structure
▪ purpose (informative, persuasive, argumentative)
▪ context
▪ audience
▪ academic or non-academic
Nature of text
- formal schema
- linguistic schema
- content schema
- culture
Reader’s Schema
**According to ____ , “Reading is meaning construction from a printed or written message.”
Day and Bamford (1998)
Reading is a psycholinguistic guessing game that involves interaction between thought and language.”
Goodman (1967)
ability to arrive at the author’s main ideas
Critical Reading
'’Critical reading is the ability to arrive at the author’s main ideas.’’
Heilman (1967)
“Critical reading is done when the reader analyzes the material which he reads and questions the validity of inferences drawn.”
According to Betts (1957)
