ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the deep thinking the reading process entails. Each student’s use of visible and invisible information in the reading process is unique. A teacher’s skill and knowledge is the most powerful variable in determining whether or not a student learns to read, especially a student in poverty. Students continue to learn to read throughout their years of education, and family members and teachers play an important role in the development of the students’ increasingly complex levels of literacy learning. However, for some students, teachers are their best hope for achieving literacy. Literacy acquisition is a developmental process that takes place from birth through adulthood. Researchers have described this process as a sequence of developmental phases. Though researchers have used different terms to delineate the phases, most have similar descriptions. Digital technology enables readers and writers to integrate text, image, sound, animation, and voice in new ways.
