2-3-page essay about the theories and their implications.
APA Format
No Plagiarism
Read about Cueing Systems, Automaticity, Schema Theory and Transactional Theory. Do the theories make sense to you? What would you do to teach a child to read? Define the theory and describe it in terms of its basic assumptions. State whether you agree with it (in part or in whole). Why or why not?
Explain the practical implications of the theory in terms of how it would influence the kinds of activities or strategies one might use in the classroom.
Provide an introductory and concluding paragraph for the paper.
Resources:
Probst, R. E. (1987). Transactional Theory in the Teaching of Literature. Retrieved February 2012 from http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-926/theory.htm.
An, S. (2013). Schema theory in reading. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 3(1), 130-134.
Adams, M. J. (2003). The three cueing system. Retrieved from http://www.balancedreading.com/3cue-adams.html
Kuhn, M. R., Schwanenflugel, P. J., & Meisinger, E. B. (2010). Aligning theory and assessment of reading fluency: Automaticity, prosody, and definitions of fluency. Reading Research Quarterly, 45(2), 230-251.
