Replying to texts after reading notification

[gwh34t]

I may be missing something simple, but I have a question about replying to texts. When a message notification comes through, I can scroll to the right and choose dismiss or reply. If I reply, I can choose from my premade texts and send one. However, if a text is longer than a sentence, I have to scroll down to read the whole text. In doing so, I loose the ability to respond to the text message. One would think that from the home screen, I could go to messages, fins the text I want to reply to, and either scroll down/up or double tap to respond...? Anything to do this that I'm missing?

 

[bitman417]

You could use Cortana to reply (if you have a Windows Phone)