These three “states” may actually describe what happens to students when they read. In the first case, their automatic reading behavior
kicks, in and they essentially read without being aware of what they are
reading, blindly highlighting the first sentence of every paragraph. Suddenly they find themselves at the end of the chapter without much idea
of what was in it. Skipping, for a minute, to the third state, if students
are given extremely precise instructions (like very specific questions that
have a right answer), they follow the instructions closely, answer the
questions
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