Theories of Reading Flashcards
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Reading Model
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Graphic attempt to depict how an individual perceives a word, processes a clause, and comprehends a text
2
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Bottom Up Approach
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- Focused on the printed form of a text
- Text-based that emphasizes a single-direction, part-to-whole processing of a text.
- is concerned mainly with the book itself (the “bottom”) and less concerned at first with the context and ideas in a reader’s mind (”the top”).
3
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Bottom Up Approach: Features
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- Identify letter features
- Link these feature to recognize letters
- Combine letters to recognize spelling patterns
- Link spelling patterns to recognize words patterns and then proceed to sentence, paragraph and text-level processing
4
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Bottom Up Approach: Shortcoming
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- Students are able to get through an entire text without having much of a clue about the meaning of it.
- The more important thing is to understand the actual graphical, visual letters words and sentences in a text.
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Top Down Approach
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- READER-BASED which suggest that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers with meaning-driven processes, or an assumption about the meaning of a text
- It emphasizes meaning and themes, rather than the letters and words that make up the text.
- Meaning is brought to print, not derived from print.
6
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Top Down Approach: Features
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- can comprehend a selection even though they do not recognize each word
- should use meaning and grammatical cues to identify unrecognized words
- for meaning is the primary objective of reading rather than master of letters, letter/sound relationships, and words.
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Top Down Approach: Shortcoming
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- They may get major themes, but have missed some important finer points because they had to skip over a good amount of words to finish
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Interactive Approach
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- Culmination of bottom-up and top-down
- relying on phonics and a student’s experiences with text, believing that each is necessary for understanding.
