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

[gaysu at pinnelleducation.com]

To David et. .al:
Sometimes readers do need to slow down and learn to look at print but a great deal of teaching of these skills in isolation can slow down processing in general--which we do not want!
GSP

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On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:06 PM, "David Olson" <dolson at oise.utoronto.ca> wrote:



	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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