Content Reading [microform] : Is There Any Other Kind? / Marcia Baghban
- Bib ID:
- 5585646
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Baghban, Marcia
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- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED385824
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995
- 13 p.
- Summary:
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The most important skill teachers can communicate through reading experiences is the awareness of what kinds of questions to ask with different kinds of texts. These questions are not the factual questions that drift in and out of short term memory but the implicit questions, the thought-provoking "big questions." Some teachers concentrate on teaching only reading skills while others teach reading with literature or with content areas such as social studies. Two little "experiments" (reading lines of random symbols, nonsense words, pseudo-words and legitimate words, and "The Three Little Pigs" translated into another symbol system) demonstrate that reading is only incidentally visual. With the "Three Little Pigs," readers use sound-letter correspondences, syntax, semantics, and their own ability to predict what will happen to decode the print. Language is not only predictable, it is generative. From just 26 letters of the alphabet come not only all the words in an unabridged dictionary, but new words are also created constantly. Comprehension and learning cannot be separated. Social studies adds the power of finding relevant answers to the "big questions" to the content that is already inherent in language itself. (Contains four illustrations of the "Three Little Pigs" story with accompanying captions written in an alternative symbol system.) (RS)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English International Conference (New York, NY, July 7-9, 1995).
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