Principles of CRISS
- Background knowledge is a powerful determinant of reading comprehension.
- Good readers are actively involved in making sense from their reading.
- Students need many opportunities to talk with one another about what they are learning.
- Good readers are metacognitive. They are goal directed, and they know how to attack print to create meaning.
- Students need many opportunities to write about what they are learning.
- Good readers and writers have an intuitive understanding of the author's craft.
- Good readers know a variety of ways to organize information for learning.
- Students learn to become strategic when teachers teach these processes directly through explanation and modeling.
- Students come to understand by doing a variety of thought-demanding activities with a topic.
