Reading and Writing: Intro

• Accuracy - refers to the ability of the person to understand anything that he/she reads
• Fluency - refers to the ability of the person to read smoothly (considering correct enunciation, pauses, and punctuation)
• Reading - a communication process that involves both a sender and receiver
• Good readers are strategic, motivated, socially active and mentally engaged
• Not a basic skill - it’s a continous learning of different set of skills
• Complex process - it’s going thru different stages, understanding text may be different from others (each encounter adds to schemata)
• Schemata - combination of knowledge and experience
• Situationally bound - reading and understanding varies depending on the text we read and the stiuation/condition we are in (Read and be exposed to more types of advanced skills)
• Not the same as decoding - knowing what words mean is just one stage, reading requires more than simply knowing the meaning of words
• Proficiency requires characteristics - one has to acquire both accuracy and fluency to achieve proficiency