What Is Reading and Vocabulary

What is Reading?
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
Sometimes you can identify words without being able to construct much meaning from them. Read the opening lines of Lewis Carroll's poem, "Jabberwocky," and you'll see what we mean.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
Finally, sometimes you can identify words and comprehend them, but if the processes don't come together smoothly, reading will still be a labored process. For example, try reading the following sentence:
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Reading in its fullest sense involves weaving together word recognition and comprehension in a fluent manner. These three processes are complex, and each is important. How complex? Here goes? To develop word recognition, children need to learn: How to break apart and manipulate the sounds in words this isphonemic awareness example: feet has three sounds: /f/, /e/, and /t/ Certain letters are used to represent certain sounds this is the alphabetic principle example: s and h make the /sh/ sound
How to apply their knowledge of letter-sound relationships to sound out words that are new to them this is decoding example: ssssspppoooon spoon!
How to analyze words and spelling patterns in order to become more efficient at reading words this is word study example: Bookworm has two words I know: book and worm. To expand the number of words they can identify automatically, called their sight vocabulary example: Oh, I know that word the!
To develop comprehension, children need to develop: Background knowledge about many topics example: This book is about zoos that's where lots of animals live. Extensive oral and print vocabularies example: Look at my trucks I have a tractor, and a fire engine, and a bulldozer. Understandings about how the English language works example: We say she went home, not she goed home. Understandings about how print works example: reading goes from left to right
Knowledge of various kinds of texts example: I bet they live happily ever after. Various purposes for reading example: I want to know what ladybugs eat. Strategies for constructing meaning from text, and for problem solving when meaning breaks down example: This isn't making sense. Let me go back and reread it. To develop fluency, children need to:
Develop a high level of accuracy in word recognition Maintain a rate of reading brisk enough to facilitate comprehension Use phrasing and expression so that oral reading sounds like speech Transform deliberate strategies for word recognition and comprehension into automatic skills But if reading isn't pleasurable or fulfilling, children won't choose to read, and they won't get the practice they need to become fluent readers.
Therefore, reading also means developing and maintaining the motivation to read . Reading is an active process of constructing meaning?the key word here is active. To develop and maintain the motivation to read, children need to: Appreciate the pleasures of reading View reading as a social act, to be shared with others See reading as an opportunity to explore their interests Read widely for a variety of purposes, from enjoyment to gathering information Become comfortable with a variety of different written forms and genres
WHAT IS VOCABULARY
1. The body of words used in a particular language: Sentence: A comparison of the vocabularies of different languages. Sentence: The Sanskrit vocabulary
The words used in a particular subject or sphere of activity or on a particular occasion: Sentence: the vocabulary of law
[mass noun]: The term became part of business vocabulary the body of words known to an individual person: Sentence: he had a wide vocabulary A list of difficult or unfamiliar words with an explanation of their meanings, accompanying a piece of specialist or foreignlanguage text.
2. A range of artistic or stylistic forms, techniques, or movements:
Sentence: dance companies have their own vocabularies of movement
HOW TO IMPROVE VOCABULARY?
Become actively receptive to new words. Read more Add the new words you meet in your reading to your own vocabulary Write more Read the dictionary Do word puzzles and play word games
Set a goal Open your mind to new ideas Make looking up 10 words in the dictionary a day a habit Read the newspapers everyday
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What is Reading?

It isn't are difficult understand, make words, reading

the words identify or the spaces pause means less yo

2. A range of artistic or stylistic forms, techniques, or movements:

Sentence: dance companies have their own vocabularies of movement

HOW TO IMPROVE VOCABULARY?

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