Reading Power
Reading Power is a reading program developed by Adrienne Gear as a way of teaching reading comprehension by focusing readers' attention on their thinking as they read. The Brain at work in reading is doing five powerful things to enable the reader to comprehend the text. They are these
Reading Powers:
~Connect
~Question
~Visualize
~Infer
~Transform
We have two voices – a speaking voice and a thinking voice. The thinking voice, that voice in your head, is what good readers pay attention to when they are reading to help them make better sense of the text. The speaking voice, is the voice that we use when we are reading the words of a book.
Good readers are metacognitive. This means they have an awareness, or an understanding, that their brain needs to be doing specific things while they are reading to help them understand the story or book better.
Good readers know that reading is not just being able to say the words on the page. Reading is being able to say the words and also think about what those words mean to them.
Good readers know that in order to be successful readers, they need to be thinking about the story while they are reading.
Reading Power is a reading program developed by Adrienne Gear as a way of teaching reading comprehension by focusing readers' attention on their thinking as they read. The Brain at work in reading is doing five powerful things to enable the reader to comprehend the text. They are these
Reading Powers:
~Connect
~Question
~Visualize
~Infer
~Transform
We have two voices – a speaking voice and a thinking voice. The thinking voice, that voice in your head, is what good readers pay attention to when they are reading to help them make better sense of the text. The speaking voice, is the voice that we use when we are reading the words of a book.
Good readers are metacognitive. This means they have an awareness, or an understanding, that their brain needs to be doing specific things while they are reading to help them understand the story or book better.
Good readers know that reading is not just being able to say the words on the page. Reading is being able to say the words and also think about what those words mean to them.
Good readers know that in order to be successful readers, they need to be thinking about the story while they are reading.