Good+Readers+-+Group+3

=Characteristics of good readers:= 1) Good readers have achieved a certain level of fluency and are often able to make meaning of unfamiliar words through context and/or an understanding of roots and affixes. 2) Use strategies before, during and after they read to develop a full understanding and comprehension of the text. 3) Look for cues or key/signal words to reveal the authors intended meaning. 4) Determine importance and can categorize information presented. 5) Build off of prior knowledge (make connections between the things they read and connect to other texts/sources of information/experience: text-to-self, text-to-world, text-to-text) 6) According to Zweirs on pg 166:
 * Reader must align meaning with the author
 * Needs to understand and condense (chunk) what came before in the text
 * Able to determine important information by analyzing its clause
 * connect with existing knowledge and come up with his/her own example