To begin, what are those assumptions?
1. Someone else (usually a teacher) controls the reading process:
- someone else says what you read
- someone else decides how you read it
2. There is only one way to sample a text (choose what to read and how to read it):
- sequentially (from first to last word)
- in the amount assigned (attempting to understand the selection from page X to page Y)
3. Each text has one correct meaning
4. Someone else (the author) determines the meaning of a text
5. The purpose of reading is to decode the words:
- To understand, the reader has to know what all the words mean
- If a reader knows what the words mean, the reader will know what the text means
6. If you can read something out loud fluently you will understand what it means
- Reading out loud with accuracy and prosody means you understand the text
- Reading quickly means you understand the text
7. Reading is an inherent talent:
- Difficulty in reading comes from within the reader (not the text or context)
- You can't read about subjects you aren't interested in
- You can't read about subjects you know nothing about
- Ease in reading comes from within the reader:
- Good readers understand what they read without struggling
- Good readers are born not made (fixed mindset for reading)
8. There are limited options if you have trouble understanding a text:
- avoid reading it
- stop reading it
- get it done and call it good
- re-read it as many times as needed
- read it slowly and carefully
9. The text is your only source for making meaning:
- when you close the book, you are done with anything that would help you make sense of it
- only that text is available to help you make sense (no other books, movies, people could help)
Many thanks to my colleague Susan Reddoor for her ideas and comments on this!
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