Create a list of strategies you employ when you run into roadblocks to comprehension
How do they compare to some of the strategies introduced in the course?
Reflect and comment on the use of such strategies in your own reading.
Relate some of these to what was happening when you initially tried to read the Kingdom of Kay Oss.
Reading is more than the total sum of all of the words.
What prior knowledge did you call upon to make sense of the passage?
To what extent did your knowledge of stories influence your understanding and reduce the uncertainty of the task?
How often did you rely on your knowledge of:
Letter-sound associations?
Spelling patterns?
Relationships of words to each other?
Contextual meaning?
Did you risk being wrong in your attempt to derive meaning? That is, did you use context clues to guess unfamiliar words or just skip them?
Did you maintain sufficient speed when reading the selection to overcome the limitations of visual processing and short-term memory?
