Season 1

5 domains of reading

• Semantics/Vocabulary

• Pragmatics

• Morphological Skills

• Syntax

• Phonological Skills

Reading affects… (5)

• Communication and Collaboration

• Personal Management

• Information Processing

• Problem-solving and Decision-making

• Creative expression

3 components of reading

word recognition → comprehension → fluency

What is schema?

Relating past knowledge and past experiences to what you’re currently reading.

Schema assumes…

Written text doesn’t have its own meaning, it can only give directions for readers to construct meaning from their own knowledge and experiences.

Schemas are…

Templates formed by our past experiences, knowledge, and cultural understanding. When we encounter new information we use these existing schemas to understand it

Linguistic Schema

• Can be enhanced by increasing vocabulary.

• Strong linguistic schema allows for decoding words quickly, can follow complex sentences, recognizing tone and figurative meaning

• If weak, comprehension is slow

• Familiar with sentence structure

Formal Schema

• can recognize organizational forms and rhetorical structure

• can include topic familiarity, cultural knowledge, and previous experience

• haiku, poem, etc.

Content Schema

• reader’s background knowledge/experience on a topic

• understanding of new information is influenced by previous knowledge

• if new info and and previous info are conflicting, you experience Cognitive Dissonance or mental discomfort

• Disequilibrium occurs after cognitive dissonance, happens when old understand can’t work anymore

• reader cannot explain the text with their old interpretation

• After disequilibrium is Accommodation, wherein you revise, add complexity, let go of oversimplification, and hold onto more ideas.