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Over the Page...around the Pictures...and into the Squiggles.
Gibbs, Colin – Australian Journal of Reading, 1988
Discusses how beginning readers respond to familiar and unfamiliar stories. States that children begin as inventive readers, using different strategies--such as naming, counting, or structuring--to "read" the text. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Prereading Experience, Primary Education