- Under involuntary control
- Activation of related concepts from prior knowledge
- Information processed from beginning of text that has already been read
- Allows the reader to comprehend the sentence they are on


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- Need to form a balance between forming coherence and remembering what was addressed in the text
- Can only focus on certain parts of the text at a time in order to process it using his/her cognitive “toolbox”
- Are partly automatic (already known) and partly strategic (learned)
- Reading comprehension involves processing multiple components
- The process is cyclical as new information is being processed


Process

van den Broek, P., & Espin, C. A. (2012). Connecting cognitive theory and assessment: Measuring individual differences in reading comprehension. School Psychology Review, 41(3), 315-325.

Connecting cognitive theory and assessment: Measuring individual differences in reading comprehension

Automatic Processes

- Building coherence
- Can eventually become automatic processes
- Referring back to certain portions of the text
- Searching through what background information he/she already knows to help with understanding a sentence
- Utilizing text signals, such as italics, bolded words, etc.
- Utilizing integrative processing to together the information from multiple paragraphs


Strategic Processes

- If the standards of the readers are depicted in the text, then strategic process don’t need to be utilizing (only automatic processes)
- If the standards of the readers are not depicted in the text, then strategic processes are utilized


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