Reading Power

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Pembroke Publishers Limited, 2013 - Reading (Elementary) - 144 pages
 

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Page 14 - children learn to read in the primary grades and read to learn in the intermediate grades" seems to be borne out if one interprets an increase in inferential questioning as an increase in "reading to learn.
Page 9 - Holmes who noted that a mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimension.
Page 6 - Thank you to all the children, families and colleagues with whom I have worked and from whom I have learned so much: in various places, particularly at Elms Road and at PEEP.
Page 10 - Reading demands a two-pronged attack. It involves cracking the alphabetic code to determine the words and thinking about those words to construct meaning
Page 11 - Once thought of as a natural result of decoding plus oral language, comprehension is now viewed as a much more complex process involving knowledge, experience, thinking and teaching
Page 14 - One of reading's biggest myth is that we learn to read in the primary grades, then suddenly read to learn in the intermediate grades. Reading is not so simple a process. We develop strategies to improve reading proficiency well into adulthood.

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