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What’s so hard about reading?

What’s so hard about reading?. Why phonetics isn’t the end or the beginning. Illiterate people earn less, live shorter lives, comprise 70% of incarcerated people and have a much higher likelihood of having a child who is illiterate.

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What’s so hard about reading?

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  1. What’s so hard about reading? Why phonetics isn’t the end or the beginning

  2. Illiterate people earn less, live shorter lives, comprise 70% of incarcerated people and have a much higher likelihood of having a child who is illiterate

  3. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were unable to: • "able to locate information in text" • "make low-level inferences using printed materials" • "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information.”

  4. The least literate group earned a yearly average of $2,105 and about 50 million adults (25% to 28% of them) in the next-least literate of the five literacy groups earned a yearly average of $5,225 at a time when the Census Bureau considered poverty level for an individual to be $7,363 per year.

  5. Ancient Chinese Character for “sun” Sun, also used for Day

  6. Literal Meaning and Metaphorical Meaning • Literally: • The celestial body which makes our world possible • Metaphorically: • Life • holiness • warmth • the act of its rising represents rebirth • the setting death

  7. Phonetic writing systems are not graphic representations of tangible things but rather a notation of spoken words which, when read aloud, can be understood by another fluent in that language system.

  8. Words as hints not • His horse, followed de deux bassets, faisait la terreresonner under its even tread. Des gouttes de verglas stuck to his manteau. Uneviolentebrise was blowing. One side de l’horizon lighted up, and dans la blancheur of the early morning light, ilapercut rabbits hopping at the bord de leurs terriers.

  9. What we already know • “AOCCDRNIG TO RSCHEEARCH AT CMABRIGDE UINERVTISY, IT DEOSN’T MTTAER IN WHAT OREDR THE LTTEERS IN A WORD ARE, THE OLNY IPRMOETNT TIHNG IS THAT THE FRIST AND LSAT LTTEER BE AT THE RGHIT PCLAE. THE RSET CAN BE A TOTAL MSES AND YOU CAN SITLLRAED IT WOUTHIT PORBELM. THIS IS BCUSEAE THE HUAMN MNID DEOS NOT RAED ERVEY LTETER BY ISTLEF, BUT THE WORD AS A WLOHE.” • (Powell 244)

  10. What if we didn’t already know… • The pre-treated pollen samples were washed with deionised water and dried in an oven at 60 _C for 2 days. They were then combusted using the sealed-tube technique in the presence of pre-cleaned CuO and Ag wire and converted to graphite using the H2/Fe method [12]. AMS 14C measurements were carried out using the ANTARES facility at ANSTO [13]. The 14C/13C ratio of each sample was measured relative to the NIST standard of oxalic acid I(HOxI). The 14C age of each sample was calculated after correcting for backgrounds (accelerator and chemistry) and isotopic fractionation using measured d13C. • (Penny 390)

  11. “If someone does not share the general knowledge that writers assume all readers will acquire as part of living in the same culture, then that person will not understand what the writers have written.” • (Miller 1297)

  12. Western metaphysical assumptions • Rationalism • Logic, order of events, cause and effect, least to greatest, relevance, empathy • Objectivity • Certain reality which exists independent of experience, self-awareness, judgment of others • Universality • Affirmation of meaning, purpose to existence, common good, mutual aid

  13. What does logical arrangement look like? • What kinds of expectations can I have for reading a logically arranged piece? • What kinds of events or feelings are “meaning making” feelings or lessons? And which are not? • Ability to identify these elements enables understanding of Main Idea, Theme, Sequence, Thesis

  14. What’s so hard about reading… • Without context words are either meaningless or exploding with all kinds of potential meanings

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