Título : | Reading without nonsense | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | Autores: | Smith, Frank, Autor | Mención de edición: | 2º ed | Editorial: | Teachers college press | Fecha de publicación: | 1985 | Número de páginas: | 166 p. | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 978-0-8077-2768-3 | Idioma : | Inglés (eng) | Clasificación: | Accesibilidad:Tecnología Educación:Lectura Etapas de desarrollo:Infancia Psicología
| Nota de contenido: | Contents
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1. Making sense of reading
Reading and the brain
Reading and instruction
Learning to read
Preview
Two words of advice
Summary
2. Reading - From behind the eyes
Visual and nonvisual information
Trading two kinds of information
Limitations upon seeing
How not to see very much
Fixations
The rate of visual information processing
Knowledge about letters
Nonvisual information from sense
Tunnel vision
Causes of tunnel vision
Overcoming tunnel vision
Summary
3. Problems and possibilities of memory
Limitations of short-term memory
Overcoming the limitations of short-term memory
Short-Term memory and meaning
Limiatations of long-term memory
Overcoming the limitations of long-term memory
Memorization and anxiety
Summary
4. Shallows and depths of language
The fallacy of phonics
Making phonics work
Reading without phonics
The function of spelling
Meeting new words
The profundity of meaning
Two aspects of language
The gulf metween surface structure and meaning
Comprehending sentences
Bridging the gulf
Summary
5. Comprehension - the basis of learning
The theory of the world in the head
Relating present to past
Prediction - the theory in the future
The need for prediction
The relativity of comprehension
Learning - developing the theory in the head
Learning by experiment
Children and experiments
Learning all the time
Learning to read by reading
The cost of not learning
The risk and rewards of learning
Summary
6. Readers and reading
What is reading?
The range of reading
Reading - getting questions answered
Readers' questions
The identification of letters
The identification of words
Making sense of text
The strategies of reading
Summary
7. Learning to read
The roots of reading
Making sense of learning to read
Joining the literacy club
Reading and writting
Summary
8. The teacher's role
Helping versus interfering
interfering with learning to read
helping children learn to read
making sense of all kinds of print
reading in school
problems of programmatic instruction
some instructional issues
dyslexia
reversals
reading readiness
remedial reading
dialect
reading and spelling
the challenge of teaching reading
Summary
9. Enter the computer
The ultimate programming machine
computers in the literacy club
Learning about computers
Summary
For further reading
Index |
Reading without nonsense [texto impreso] / Smith, Frank, Autor . - 2º ed . - [S.l.] : Teachers college press, 1985 . - 166 p. ISBN : 978-0-8077-2768-3 Idioma : Inglés ( eng) Clasificación: | Accesibilidad:Tecnología Educación:Lectura Etapas de desarrollo:Infancia Psicología
| Nota de contenido: | Contents
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1. Making sense of reading
Reading and the brain
Reading and instruction
Learning to read
Preview
Two words of advice
Summary
2. Reading - From behind the eyes
Visual and nonvisual information
Trading two kinds of information
Limitations upon seeing
How not to see very much
Fixations
The rate of visual information processing
Knowledge about letters
Nonvisual information from sense
Tunnel vision
Causes of tunnel vision
Overcoming tunnel vision
Summary
3. Problems and possibilities of memory
Limitations of short-term memory
Overcoming the limitations of short-term memory
Short-Term memory and meaning
Limiatations of long-term memory
Overcoming the limitations of long-term memory
Memorization and anxiety
Summary
4. Shallows and depths of language
The fallacy of phonics
Making phonics work
Reading without phonics
The function of spelling
Meeting new words
The profundity of meaning
Two aspects of language
The gulf metween surface structure and meaning
Comprehending sentences
Bridging the gulf
Summary
5. Comprehension - the basis of learning
The theory of the world in the head
Relating present to past
Prediction - the theory in the future
The need for prediction
The relativity of comprehension
Learning - developing the theory in the head
Learning by experiment
Children and experiments
Learning all the time
Learning to read by reading
The cost of not learning
The risk and rewards of learning
Summary
6. Readers and reading
What is reading?
The range of reading
Reading - getting questions answered
Readers' questions
The identification of letters
The identification of words
Making sense of text
The strategies of reading
Summary
7. Learning to read
The roots of reading
Making sense of learning to read
Joining the literacy club
Reading and writting
Summary
8. The teacher's role
Helping versus interfering
interfering with learning to read
helping children learn to read
making sense of all kinds of print
reading in school
problems of programmatic instruction
some instructional issues
dyslexia
reversals
reading readiness
remedial reading
dialect
reading and spelling
the challenge of teaching reading
Summary
9. Enter the computer
The ultimate programming machine
computers in the literacy club
Learning about computers
Summary
For further reading
Index |
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