[Reading-hall-of-fame] RE: Reading-hall-of-fame Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1

[David Olson]

Jay et al:

In my view "processing speed" is merely a reflection of one's knowledge. 
But I think the question raises a more general question.  In reviewing a
bunch of papers on literacy, it occurred to me that there is a
considerable gap among experts (like ourselves) on the following issue:

Do tested differences between the good and poor readers, the literate and
the non/less literate, provide a reliable guide as to what should be
taught.  

I think not.  And that included speed of processing.  Whereas most/many
literacy researchers seem to think that if good/poor readers differ on,
say, short term memory for letters, vocabulary, sentence comprehension,
inferencing, etc. that implies that such  "skills" should be taught.  That
assumption is taken for granted by most prescriptive reading programs.  I
don't agree.

How about you?

David

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