TY - JOUR
T1 - Embedding comprehension within reading acquisition processes
AU - Scull, Janet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2010, Australian Literacy Educator's Association.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Contemporary understandings of reading development acknowledge the compilation and coordination of a range of skills and strategies (Paris, 2005). The development of both decoding and comprehension, integrated into reading acquisition processes, reflects this building of complementary reading skills. Hence, the research reported here aimed to examine early reading instruction to gain insight into how skilled teachers incorporate this duality of purposes into instructional practices. In order to closely examine students at the beginning stages of reading instruction 16 Reading Recovery teacher/student dyads were observed, with book reading interactions coded and analysed to detail teacher attention. The results reveal how teachers guide students towards the co-construction of text meanings and highlights teachers’ and students’ active engagement in talk interactions, as central to the instructional process.
AB - Contemporary understandings of reading development acknowledge the compilation and coordination of a range of skills and strategies (Paris, 2005). The development of both decoding and comprehension, integrated into reading acquisition processes, reflects this building of complementary reading skills. Hence, the research reported here aimed to examine early reading instruction to gain insight into how skilled teachers incorporate this duality of purposes into instructional practices. In order to closely examine students at the beginning stages of reading instruction 16 Reading Recovery teacher/student dyads were observed, with book reading interactions coded and analysed to detail teacher attention. The results reveal how teachers guide students towards the co-construction of text meanings and highlights teachers’ and students’ active engagement in talk interactions, as central to the instructional process.
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U2 - 10.1007/BF03651826
DO - 10.1007/BF03651826
M3 - Article
SN - 1038-1562
VL - 33
SP - 87
EP - 107
JO - Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
JF - Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
IS - 2
ER -