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The four roles of a reader approach enables students to remain focused on their reading goals and learn the various ways they can actively engage with the text to achieve them (Winch et al., 2011).
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Our work with teaching reading is informed by the four roles of the reader model articulated by Luke and Freebody (1999, in Callow & Hertzberg 2006) – code breaker, text participant, text user and text analyst. A comprehensive description of a context for reading using this model by Callow and Hertzberg is in Beyond the Reading Wars, edited ...
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The Four Roles of the Reader also known as the Four Resources Model, provides a framework for effective reading practices with an emphasis on student cultural and community knowledge (Freebody & Luke, 1990, as cited in Luke et al., 2011, Rennie, 2011; Winch et al, 2014; Rennie & Goff, 2015).
- Code-breaker. Code-breaking practices involve decoding of the text and understanding what the words and sentences mean. For this to be successful the reader must use all the cue systems semantic, grammatical, graphophonic and visual.
- Text user. A text users role focuses on the the way we use text to achieve certain goals, for example we may read an advertisement and then decide to purchase an item or we read a recipe to cook dinner.
- Constructing meaning. “Constructing meaning is where the reader is concerned with what the text actually means” (Winch et al., 2014, p.27). The reader does this by using their prior knowledge of the topic; it has been shown that they will understand a text better if they are aware of the topic and most of the language.
- Text critic. A text critic looks for the original thoughts of the writer within the text. They look at the literary, informative and especially persuasive texts to comprehend how language and pictures are used to represent specific characters, circumstances, places, cultural groups or scientific positions.
promote development of phonological and phonemic awareness. develop letter recognition and sound to letter correspondence. expand sight vocabulary through a word wall, letter manipulation, games such as Snap or Fish, etc. develop knowledge of onset and rimes.
The four roles of the reader, also known as the four resources model, comes under the ‘skills used to read’ section of the areas of reading. This model was created by Luke and Freebody (1990, cited Serafini, 2012) as a new way in which to view what it means to be a successful reader in the modern age. As a teacher, it is a necessity that ...
The four resources model, and its associated four roles of the reader, expanded the definition of reading from a simple model of decoding printed texts to a model of constructing meaning and analysing texts in sociocultural contexts.
