Reading is an Interactive Process

The liquid iron is confined by what is called a rocky mantle; the juice of the orange is confined by a white spongy cellulose material.

• The liquid iron is confined by what is called a rocky mantle; the juice of the orange is confined by a white spongy cellulose material.
• The difference is that the white cellulose is only a fraction of the orange’s radius, while the rocky mantle accounts for about a third of its radius, about 1300 miles
• As you may have guessed by now, both the orange and this sphere have a crust or skin, which serves to protect the interior.

Can you guess

• Can you guess
• what the
• sphere is?

The Usual Suspects

• The sun!

• A planet!

What helped?

• Knowledge
• About science

• Motivation

• Words I’ve digested

• Experience with oranges

• earth!

• Knowledge About Language
• Linguistic Features

Do you know all these words?

relation	set	table	values
variables	variation	with	set
are	between	consists	continuously
corresponding	curve	draws	graph
it	isolated	known	making
only	often	one	points

If so, then do you know what this means……..

• If the known relation between the variables consists of a table of corresponding values, the graph consists only of the corresponding set of isolated point. If the variables are known to vary continuously, one often draws a curve to show the variation

GOOD SHOW!

• It’s a line on a graph!

• Knowledge of Text Structure
• Cohesive Devices

Narrative Text Structure

Story Structure of Narratives

• Setting
• Plot
• Initiating event
• Internal response
• Attempt
• Consequence
• Reaction

Narrative Text Structure

• Is more similar to ordinary conversation
• Is more familiar to children
• Is organized into a sequential pattern – with a beginning, a middle and an end
• Is easy of keep track of

Expository texts

Structure of Expository Texts

• Types of Organization
• Enumeration
• Time order
• Comparison/ Contrast
• Cause & Effect
• Problem - Solution

• The Evolution of the Dodo
• How did the dodo change from being
• big birds with strong wings and beaks
• to a big, flightless bird?

• CAUSES:
• ___________
• ___________

• EFFECT:
• They grew bigger.

• CAUSES:
• No one chased
• them.

• Cause and Effect:
• _____________
• _____________

• EFFECT:
• ___________
• ___________

• EFFECT:
• The dodos were
• no longer able to
• fly.

Expository texts

• Provide information
• Provide facts
• Usually found in content area materials
• Usually used in newspapers
• Differ from ordinary conversation
• Are used in most school materials

The Reader and the Text

• The way the information is organized makes a difference in the way we understand and use information.