The Four Roles of the Reader (Viewer, Listener Writer)
 From your readings so far,
a) What are the Four Roles of a Literate Person?
b) How would you describe each of the four
components?
*Use this table to capture your thoughts.
1 Code breaking
 know the relationship between the spoken
and written language
 interpret graphic symbols and their contexts
of use
using such knowledge to decode texts and
models using known information
3 text use
 know and use social and cultural functions
of reading and writing practices
 understand text types are used for particular
purposes in and out of school.
 What knowledge do students bring of the
social purposes and uses of this kind of
text?
 What explicit teaching will support students
in using this text for particular purposes?
2 Text participation
 know the meaning patterns operating in
written texts
 make literal and inferential meanings of
texts
 What experiences and prior knowledge of
the topic of the text do students bring to the
text?
 What is their knowledge of similar texts?
4 text analysis
 understand that texts are crafted according
to the values, views and interests of the
writer or creator
 know that texts position readers differently,
and both constrain and influence them.
 What knowledge do students bring of the
ways this text is designed to represent
particular views and interests?
 What explicit teaching will support students
in developing critical language awareness of
the ways language works to create particular
meanings?