Constructive Reading

Haas and Flower seem to have students reading  process figured out quite well. Throughout, the article both explain the two different reading processes "constructive"and "receptive". After reading the article I realized what category  I fell under Often when reading, I find myself reading aloud and applying some of my worldly experiences to make sense of the text. When Haas and Flower explained that people construct their interpretations of text differently, I couldn't have have agreed more. When I read Frankenstein for the first time, I didn't think of Victor as a scientist, but my classmates did. It's funny because most teachers don't like for students to have different interpretations of the text, but teach constructive reading styles.  Instead of teaching to the reader, they often teach to the text. For the most part I'm in agreement with Haas and Flower when it comes to the problems students have with constructive, but I don't agree with  them when they say that critical reading is more than reading carefully. Throughout grade school students are trained to read carefully not critically! When I got to college, I had such a hard time with reading critically, and it because I hadn't ever been taught to read critically. I was just reading to be reading and this is something Haas and Flower doesn't mention.