Online reading is quite different from offline reading as suggested by Leu et al, in their article entitled “What is new about the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension.” (2007) Retrieved from http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/reading.html.
Interestingly, online reading skills seem to be best acquired through social exchange instead of formal, direct instruction. Web users synthesize text in two ways, as proposed by Leu et al. Firstly, they formulate a meaning from what they have read as they do when reading offline. Secondly, “they actively construct the texts that they read through the choices that they make about which sites to visit, which links to follow, whom they communicate with and whose messages they choose to read.” Leu et al, (2007) (p.13)
In addition to this, “…new comprehension skills appear in five areas: developing and important question, locating information online, critically evaluating information that readers locate, synthesizing across texts to determine a likely answer, and communication their discoveries to others.” (Coiro, 2006; Coiro & Dobler, in press; Henry, 2006; Leu, et.al, 2004)
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