Miscue Analysis and a Reading Revolution

[...]listening to the oral reading of an authentic text without interruption marked the beginning of a search to discover what readers do as they read, and it provided the basis for our current understanding of the reading process. [...]what wonderful mistakes they made! (K. Goodman, 1996a, p. 5). Because mistake or error did not capture the nature of these phenomena, Goodman termed them miscues as a nonjudgmental, neutral label. Near the end of the story, when the child reads that the main character was the first president of the United States, he said, "Oh, George Washington! Because the reader was not prompted or inter- We ask the reader to read a text they have not seen before because we want to build a description of the reader's strategies when reading independently. A more natural construction might be, "Father, look at Spot run." [...]using artificial texts can lead to a confounding and distorted view of a reader's strategies.