Expert Reader Subprocesses

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Expert Reader Rrocesses

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Decoding, literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, and comprehension monitoring.

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Decoding subprocesses

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Matching and recoding.

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Literal comprehension subprocesses

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Lexical access and parsing.

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Inferential comprehension subprocesses

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Integration, summarization, and elaboration.

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Comprehension monitoring subprocesses

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Goal setting and goal checking.

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Matching

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Reader recognizes word as one unit of information.

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Recoding

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Reader sounds out each letter or letter chunks and blends to decode.

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Lexical access

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Reader accesses word meaning in his/her lexicon, or mental dictionary, stored in LTM, and bring the information down to STM.

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Parsing

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Reader accesses syntactic rules or generalizations in LTM and applies this knowledge to chunk sentences into meaningful parts.

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Integration

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Reader puts together clues or information in several parts of the text and comes to a conclusion.

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Summarization

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Reader recognizes and develops an overarching idea(s) from details.

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Elaboration

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Reader connects ideas in the text to his/her background knowledge, experiences, or other text.

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Goal setting

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Reader recognizes that people read differently for various purposes. Reader selects and uses the reading strategy that is appropriate for the reading objective.

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Goal checking

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Reader knows various remediation strategies. If a discrepancy exists between the meaning being constructed and the text, a capable reader stops and rereads certain parts, slows down the pace, or uses some other remediation strategy.