For a more detailed description, refer to page 4. The next lesson is developed with this information in mind. A strategy used when the child is looking for more information. The child may check the picture, think whether what is read makes sense or sounds right, search for visual information from letters or print layout, or reread the sentence to search for meaning and structure. This is a behavior to be encouraged and praised.
Readers use four basic sources of information when they encounter new text.
Structure comes from oral language and is probably being used by the reader if the error is grammatically correct. Visual information is probably being used when there is evidence that the reader is using the relationship between letters and sounds or the layout or print. Word Memory is the term used to describe when the reader reads word by word as if recalling each word from a memory bank, unrelated to what has gone before. You cannot always know what cue the reader uses. Sometimes you have to make your best guess.