Although a growing body of research and practice in reading strategy instruction in secondary education has identified specific and successful methods for encouraging metacognitive awareness, there is little published research connecting these findings to post-secondary literacy education. Consequently, a gap remains in the conception, and…

Miscue analysis helps reveal whether readers are relying on graphic or visual decoding techniques and are ignoring contextual cues. Diagnosis can aid in the selection of reading improvement strategies. (SK)

Presents examples of miscues that show how various schemata or scripts that a reader may transport to the act of reading interact with those of an author. (Author/GT)

With the rise of the engagement perspective on reading, the concept of engagement has been increasingly applied in reading instruction and research without seriously questioning its underlying assumptions. By probing into the intellectual roots of the engagement perspective including Dewey's notion of reflective thinking, and Freire's critical…

Suggests that the effects of teachers giving feedback to students during oral reading can be quite significant and that such feedback should be carefully analyzed for perceived meaning and purpose as well as for results. (TJ)

This interview with reading expert Jeanne Chall focuses on criticism by Bruno Bettelheim of basal readers and phonics for beginning readers. (GC)

Discusses the Miscue Reading Inventory and offers an alternative system that keeps its strengths and completeness while eliminating most of its weak points. (FL)

When using an informal reading inventory, the teacher needs to keep in mind that the quality of a reader's miscues is more important than the quantity, and that apparent problems in word recognition may often be the difference between of a good use of context or a failure to make good use of context. (HOD)

Relates the miscues beginning teachers made as they read aloud to their peers. (HOD)

Reflects on how miscue analysis empowers teachers and empowers students. Discusses how it changes teachers' understanding of readers who are experiencing difficulty. Discusses Retrospective Miscue Analysis, which involves students in analyzing their own miscues. Offers teachers advice for getting started in miscue analysis, and appends a 38-item…

Suggesting that the process of reading, however complex, is knowable, and that the scientific study of reading is both necessary and possible, this book brings together what has been learned through the scientific study of reading by carefully observing readers in the act of reading. The book looks at reading in the real world, at how readers and…

Reviews the use of miscue analysis in conjunction with the informal reading inventory and recommends the use of a miscue mini-form to refine the identification of reading levels and error pattern analysis. Includes a copy of the mini-form. (TJ)

Describes Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA), an instructional strategy that invites readers to reflect on their own reading process. Explains several variations on the RMA strategy. (SR)

This theoretical article examines reading processes using chaos theory as an analogy. Three principles of chaos theory are identified and discussed, then related to reading processes as revealed through eye movement research. Used as an analogy, the chaos theory principle of sensitive dependence contributes to understanding the difficulty in…

In this article, the author, a Oscar Causey award winner, examines the major concepts that have characterized his 40-year career in literacy research. He describes how his understanding of these concepts developed, and particularly who and what influenced his work and how he used these influences. A summary of his current understandings and…