Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Why do I read?

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I read a post today at the Scholarly Kitchen that triggered some thoughts, not directly related to that post. Why do people read? ...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Hermeneutics of reading

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The act and art of serious reading comport two principal motions of spirit: that of interpretation (hermeneutics) and that of valuation (cri...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

The primacy of experience—or is it bankruptcy?

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Current literacies are diffuse and irreverent. It is no longer a natural motion to turn to a book for oracular guidance. We distrust auctori...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Keep this in mind when reading

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Reading usually proceeds from a written record. The written record of [Ta], however, is obviously not quite identical with [Ta] itself, sinc...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Learning: easy and fun!

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It is because children learn continuously and effortlessly that adults generally fail to give them credit for the amount of learning that th...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

How do they learn?

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Children learn by relating their understanding of the new to what they know already, modifying or elaborating their prior knowledge. Learnin...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Not so much can, as will

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One of the great tragedies of contemporary education is not so much that many students leave school unable to read and to write, but that ma...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Want to be smarter? Read more!

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Experience always results in learning. Experience in reading leads to more knowledge about reading itself. Not surprisingly, students who re...
Friday, May 15, 2015

We're all beginners

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A distinction is often drawn between fluent reading and beginning reading to contrast the virtuosos manner in which experienced readers ar...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Reading aloud, again...

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In reading aloud, for our own purposes or to other people, an extra step is required. First we have to understand what we are reading, then ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

How do you learn to read?

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Let me summarize every thing I have just said: Children learn to read by reading .— Understanding Reading , page 169 <idle musing> T...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Subvocalization

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There is a general tendency to subvocalize when reading becomes difficult, when we can predict less.— Understanding Reading , page 167 <...
Monday, May 11, 2015

More on reading aloud

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According to Huey (1908), instruction at the beginning of the 20th century placed oral reading long after silent. Currently the trend is the...
Friday, May 08, 2015

Meaning and words

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We must get used to the notion that meaning is not dependent on specific words. This crucial point is elaborated many times in this book. Wh...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Study advice

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There are a number of paradoxes about the role of memory in reading. The more we try to memorize, the less we are likely to recall. The more...
Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Want to be right more often? Then be prepared to be wrong

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Signal detection theory, however, shows that the cost of increasing the proportion of correct responses will be an increase in the number of...
Monday, May 04, 2015

This is the opposite of what I thought

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Absence of uncertainty is not a condition that we tolerate for very long; we find it boring. There is no “experience” to it. We seek uncerta...
Friday, May 01, 2015

Unconscious assumptions

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Genre schemes help both readers and writers. Their characteristic forms help readers by giving them a basis for predicting what a text will ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

tolle! lege!

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Reading aloud is more complex, and therefore more demanding, than silent reading.— Understanding Reading , page 34
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Metaphors really do matter—a lot

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The metaphorical nature of terms like scheme and script is often overlooked. The use of computers as an analogy for the brain in educational...