ABSTRACT
In order to arrive at a better understanding of the reading development process, it is important to know about the reading process itself, i.e. what we do when we read. Mediated reading occurs in connection with particularly difficult and incomprehensible texts, but the usual procedure in connection with the continuous reading of intelligible text is indicated by the arrow from the first to the fourth panels. Reading comprehension requires both form and content — both processing of precomprehension and decoding. Vagueness and ignorance of the way in which our brain operates naturally lead to a misconception of the role of decoding in the reading process, so that decoding is taken to be reading, and is thus divorced from its natural and obvious context. In this way decoding will not pre-empt all attention but will be facilitated by precomprehension being given the opportunity of acting.
