[ProfessionalDevelopment 2539] Re: [LearningDisabilities 2349] The "Decoding" of words, sentences, and paragraphsRobert Iakobashvili coroberti at gmail.comThu Sep 25 16:22:58 EDT 2008
Dear Thomas, On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:45 PM, <tsticht at znet.com> wrote: > The "Decoding" of Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs > Much discussion of teaching using alphabetics (phonemics; phonics) aims at > learning to decode written words. Of course, this is necessary for reading. > But beyond the word are the sentence and paragraph. Fluent reading may > depend to some extent on how well people can construct sentences and > compile them into paragraphs. The question arises, do more skilled readers > develop a greater ability to construct sentences and compile them into > paragraphs? Absolutely agree with you. The same words taken in different context may be of a different meaning. Context is delivered not by a word, but by a sentence/paragraph. > > We found that on average the high ability readers accurately identified 99 > percent of words accurately, sentences with 77 percent accuracy, and > paragraphs with 88 percent accuracy. For the low ability readers words were > identified with 77 percent accuracy, sentences with 12 percent accuracy, > and paragraphs with 19 percent accuracy. > > This raises the possibility that in reading normal texts, low ability > readers may not achieve higher fluency skills in part because of a weakness > in sentence meaning construction and paragraph meaning compiling skills. > Possibly alphabetics may provide effective word recognition while whole > language teaching may foster the development of sentence and paragraph > construction and compilation abilities. These are aspects of "decoding" > written language that I have not seen given attention in reading research, > with either children or adults. Could you provide a link to your papers? Thank you. Looks like, that writing has a similar pattern. Therefore, we ( Ghotit ) are using context-aware spelling for dyslectic users, whereas meaning of spelling candidates is explained by description sentences and/or examples. -- Truly, Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D. ...................................................................... www.ghotit.com Assistive technology that understands you ......................................................................
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