[LIT] redefining reading

[Bill IVEY]

"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades."
<lit at literacyworkshop.org> 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:

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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.

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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