Conceptualizing Engaged Reading: Foundations and Key Perspectives
Definition :
Guthrie, Wigfield, and You (2012) described highly engaged and self-determining readers as motivated to read, strategic and purposeful to comprehending what they read, knowledgeable in their construction of meaning from text, and socially interactive while reading.
Fundamental :
Engaged reading builds upon key underlying theories of:
Motivation i.e. internal desire to read.
Cognition i.e. use of mental processes to understand and construct meaning.
Knowledge acquisition i.e. connecting prior knowledge to new information.
Social development i.e. interacting with others to share, discuss, and co-construct understanding.