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Cueing systems are a way of classifying the cues that a reader
brings to a story and that a story provides to the reader. These cues
make up all the information that readers interact with during the  reading
process. Cueing Systems are referred to as systems because the information
in each system should work together as a whole within and between each
system so that the end result is a fluent and phrased reading process.
Think of the information you will learn is this section of the lesson
as the handle of the magnifying glass. Without a good grasp on this information,
an analysis of a running record, that requires a steady lens, would be
shaky business.
Reading cues are organized or classified into divisions called Cueing
Systems. In the reading literature, opinion varies on the specific
names and organization of these cues. However, in this lesson, we will
discuss reading cues in terms of three cueing systems: Visual,
Meaning, and Structure.
Visual cues are sometimes referred to as the orthrography of the word
or orthographic information. Semantics is another term that is sometimes
used in the discussion of meaning cues and structure cues are sometimes
referred to as sytax or sytactical information.
We will not discuss positional or directional cues specifically in this
lesson. It will be assumed that the reader understands that text should
be scanned from left to right and top to botttom and that the reader understands
that written words should be matched to spoken words on a one-to-one basis.
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