Take any group of emerging readers, and you'll find people who are stubbornly clinging to a few minimally effective reading strategies, such as:
- reading from the first word to the last word without thinking or stopping
- taking notes only after reading the entire text
- highlighting everything that seems significant
- if you didn't understand it, reading it again, and again
- if you didn't understand it, reading on to see if the meaning comes to you later
- if you didn't know a word, looking it up in the dictionary
- if you didn't know a word, asking someone what it means
Why is it so difficult for emerging readers to try new strategies?
- active reading seems to take more time, even if it's more efficient
- active reading has more steps
- they've never heard of active reading
- if this were so effective, some K12 teacher would have taught it to them
- they're following the advice of a former K12 teacher, probably someone they respect
- writing in a book is forbidden in K12 (because it would require owning texts = $$$$)
- stopping and starting while you read aloud means failing at reading in K12 - it's not fluent!
- saying something out loud that might be "wrong" is a sure way to get humiliated in K12
- talking to yourself is something crazy people do
- they "understand" the text, they just can't remember what they read
- sharing your thoughts out loud is "touchy feely"
- if they were just better at "comprehension," the way they learned it would work
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