Explain schemata

Schemata is an effective strategy used by good readers.  Good readers in fact interact with the text; they have their own personal expectations. They create meaning by constructing or generating relationships between what they read and what they already know.

Hence, a prior knowledge about general things highly influence to understand better about the text.

So, readers have networks of prior understanding about a topic, theorists call it schemata. In the process of reading, they add those networks and filling in some of the gaps with what they know.

 

 

 

To sum up, schema theory suggest that, in creating meaning, good readers rely also on their previous knowledge to shed light on the new topics.