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Colorado State Standards for Reading

The best definition of reading we could come up with that encompasses what we want our students to gain:
Reading comprehension is a process that involves the orchestrations of the reader's prior experience and knowledge about the world and about language. It involves such interrelated strategies as predicting, questioning, summarizing, determining meanings of vocabulary in context, monitoring one's own comprehension, and reflecting. The process also involves such affective factors as motivation, ownership, purpose, and self-esteem. It takes place in and is governed by a specific context, and it is dependent on social interaction. It is the integration of all these processes that accounts for comprehension. They are not isolable, measurable subfactors. They are wholistic processes for constructing meaning.

Bartoli, Jill, and Morton Botel. 1988. Reading/Learning Disability: An Ecological Approach. New York; Teachers College Press.