The Three Reading Cue Systems

Resource: Running Records and the Wright Group

I. Meaning - Does it make sense?

• Semantics
• Prior Knowledge
• Schema
• Information from Illustrations
• Sense of Story

II. Structure - Does it sound right?

• Syntax
• Grammar
• Natural Language

III. Visual - Does it look right?

• Graphophonics - Sounds and Symbols
• Print Conventions - Directionality, Punctuation, etc.
• Letters, Clusters, Word Levels
• Analogies