ABSTRACT
As teachers of reading, this is a very important question for us to try to answer. Naturally, what we believe the reading process to consist of will affect the way we try to teach it to children. We need, therefore, to examine the reading process closely and the following questions will help to focus our examination. • When does reading begin? Does the process start as our eyes encounter print or does it
begin before that? • Do we read all texts in the same way or is there variation in the process depending on
the nature of the text? • Does everybody use the same reading process (or processes) or is there an individual
element to it? • How do we differentiate between successful and unsuccessful reading?
