ABSTRACT
DRAMA/ENACTMENT STRATEGIES AND TRANSACTIONAL READING Expert readers use a common general repertoire of stances and strategies when they read and we can apprentice our students into the reading fraternity by sharing these expert stances with them. Likewise, very specific communities of practice use particular reading strategies when reading the texts required of them, e.g. lawyers when reading legal documents, historians reading artifacts, software designers reading code. (See Wilhelm, Baker, & Dube, 2001; and Wilhelm, 2001 for full discussions of task-specific reading strategies.) Furthermore, such experts bring specific content knowledge and content strategies to bear when dealing with the substance of such texts.
