ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how Destiny, Eliza, Jamilet, Lizbeth, and Valeria talked about reading, in general, and how they talked about the specific practices they used when they independently read a biology and an English language arts text. The focal students saw comprehension as meaning that the reader was tasked with extracting the singular meaning from the text. Learning about students’ ideas about reading is important because existing research suggests that there is an interconnection between ideas about reading and reading practices. Create a video compilation of soon-to-be graduating students, teachers, administrators, alumni, and other people at school or in the community talking about when they experience difficulty with reading and how they cope with this difficulty. The purpose of the focus on the individual is to show what asking students about their ideas about reading and observing their reading practices revealed about their abilities.
