Ending the Reading Wars- Reading Acquisition Fr…

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• Author: readwise.io
• Full Title: Ending the Reading Wars- Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert
• Category: #articles
• Document Tags: science of learning
• Summary:: Children learn to read by developing their ability to decode words, progressing from partial to full decoding skills. Comprehension requires more than just recognizing words; it involves understanding the text as a whole. The Simple View of Reading emphasizes the importance of both word recognition and comprehension for effective reading.
• URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/289035065

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• The first limitation is that, although there have been many reviews describing the strength of the evi- dence for phonics instruction (e.g., Rose, 2006), it is more difficult to find an accessible tutorial review explaining why phonics works. (View Highlight)
• Therefore, it is important to understand how children progress to this more advanced form of word recognition and how teaching practice can support this. In addition, reading comprehension clearly entails more than the identification of individual words: Children are not literate if they cannot understand text. (View Highlight)
• That is, instead of showing how a foundation of phonic knowledge permits a child to understand and gain experience with text, this imbalance has allowed a characterization of phonics as “barking at print” (read- ing aloud robotically without understanding) to con- tinue among educationalists (e.g., Davis, 2013; Samuels, 2007) and public figures (e.g., Rosen, 2012). (View Highlight)
• If a child is exposed to a rich spoken-language environ- ment, that child will almost certainly learn to under- stand and produce spoken language. (View Highlight)