"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 12:27 AM -0500 wrote: >how would each of you define reading?
Hi! Here are our ideas (I think - I hope! - I've got them all), including the one I thought of before hearing from you all: ******************************************* Reading is interacting with visual input to try to reconstruct the originally intended meaning. Reading involves interacting with a wide variety of texts, which include those that underlie media and those which surround us (internet, advertising, etc.) with a critical stance that allows the reader to both make and question meaning. Reading is an interaction with text ( anything from a book to art, to graphs or charts) with a purpose or way to think about and classify the information you've interacted with ..... Reading is thinking. Reading is a cognitive process whereby a reader actively synthesizes and evaluates text--all kinds of text, of which fiction may be the least important. ************************ So! With those thoughts in mind, and whatever personal definition of reading we each now have, here's the pertinent link to the online version of David Booth's book "Reading Doesn't Matter Any More." I'm anxious to know what you all think of it! http://tinyurl.com/tqlso Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
