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Activity 1

What did you read ?

We read to get message

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Activity 2

Can you read ?

Can we make meaning ?

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Activity 3

Jigsaw Reading

Reading Processes
Bottom up processing Top down processing Interactive reading models

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Reading Processes:

Bottom up Processes

The reader constructs the text from the smallest units (letters to words to phrases to sentences etc). The process of constructing the text from those small units becomes so automatic that readers are not aware how it operates. Decoding is an earlier term for this process.

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Bottom up Processes

Note:

Good readers are characterized by fluent, automatized use of bottom-up processes. 2nd language teachers should encourage the development of automaticity so as to help learners become good decoders. This can be done by exposing learners to large quantities of print to encourage automaticity of word recognition skills.

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Top-down processes :

The readers bring a great deal of knowledge, expectations, assumptions & questions to the text.
They continue to read as long as the text confirms their expectations. (Goodman, 1967) The theory argues that readers fit the text into knowledge (cultural, syntactic, linguistic, historical) they already possess, then check back when new/unexpected info appears.

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The Interactive Model :

Argues that both top-down & bottom-up processes are occuring, either alternately or at the same time. The process moves both bottom-up and top-down, depending on the type of text as well as on the readers background knowledge, language proficiency level, motivation, strategy use & culturally shaped beliefs about the reading.

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Conclusion

both top-down a well as bottom-up processing are important to be able to read fluently. reading is more accurately characterised as an interactive process. It is interactive in two senses: first, top-down and bottom-up processing interact. Second, the reader interacts with the text to construct meaning. teachers should reflect on how their own reading processes operate so that they can better understand and anticipate the types of processing and potential problems that students will experience.
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What is Reading ? Reading is a multifaceted process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Learn how readers integrate these facets to make meaning from print.

Reading is making meaning from print. It requires that we:

Identify the words in print a process called word recognition Construct an understanding from them a process called comprehension Coordinate identifying words and making meaning so that reading is automatic and accurate an achievement called fluency
Topic 1 - Reading Processes August 2011 Diane Henry Leipzig (2001)

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