Author: Diane

The Three Reading Cue Systems

Story sense

Natural
language

Prior
knowledge

Meaning
Semantic Cue System
Does it make sense?

Structure
Syntactic Cue System
Does it sound right?

Knowledge of English

Text

Illustrations

Grammatical patterns and
Language structures

Sounds and symbols

Print conventions
Directionality
Words/spaces
Letters
Beginnings/endings
Punctuation

Analogies

Visual
Graphophonic Cue System
Does it look right?