The
Characterisctic of Good Reader
According
to Gambrell, Block, and Pressley (2002: 4) identified several important characteristics
that distinguish good readers from less proficient readers.
1) Good
readers have positive habits and attitudes about reading.
2) Good
readers are fluent enough to focus on the meaning of what they read.
3) Good
readers use what they know to understand what they read.
4) Good
readers form an understanding of what they read by ex-tending, elaborating, and
critically evaluating the meaning of the text.
5) Good
readers use a variety of effective strategies to enhanceand monitor their
understanding of text
6) Good
readers can read a variety of texts and can read for a va-riety of purposes
In
addition Willson (2009: 3) point out the characteristic of good readers do
while reading.
1) Engage
in practices that increase their background
knowledge
2) Know
their purpose for reading.
3) Focus
their complete attention on the reading process.
4) Give
their complete attention to the process of reading
5) Constantly
check their understanding of what they are reading.
6) Monitor
their reading comprehension and do so automatically
7) Stop
reading and use a fix-up strategy only when they do not understand what they
are reading
8) Decide
if they have achieved their reading objective
9) Self-check
their comprehension of what they have read.
10) Summarize
major ideas in some manner such as a graphic organizer
11) Seek
any additional information from other sources.
