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Reading is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and getting meaning from them. It involves receiving and taking in the sense of letters, symbols, or words, often by sight. This can include studying movements to understand communication, such as reading lips, or uttering aloud the words that are written. Reading allows individuals to learn from what they have seen in print and to deliver text interpretively. It is a fundamental form of communication that enables the transfer of information and ideas through written language.12

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dyslexia
Primary symptoms include extremely poor reading skills owing to no apparent cause, a tendency to read and write words and letters in reversed sequences, similar reversals of words and letters in the person’s speech, and illegible handwriting.
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Primary symptoms include extremely poor reading skills owing to no apparent cause, a tendency to read and write words and letters in reversed sequences, similar reversals of words and letters in the person’s speech, and illegible handwriting.
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education
The primary school
The teaching of reading involved an analytical method that made the process very slow. First the alphabet was taught from alpha to omega and then backward, then from both ends at once: alpha–omega, beta–psi, and so on to mu–nu. (A comparable progression in the Latin alphabet would be…
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The teaching of reading involved an analytical method that made the process very slow. First the alphabet was taught from alpha to omega and then backward, then from both ends at once: alpha–omega, beta–psi, and so on to mu–nu. (A comparable progression in the Latin alphabet would be…
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pedagogy
Reading-writing media
Reading and writing have formed the staple of traditional education. Both assume sophisticated language attainments and the capacity to think formally and respond to another mind, for a textbook is essentially a mode of communication between a remote teacher and a reader. The…
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Reading and writing have formed the staple of traditional education. Both assume sophisticated language attainments and the capacity to think formally and respond to another mind, for a textbook is essentially a mode of communication between a remote teacher and a reader. The…
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speech disorder
Disorders of language development
…through a period of retarded reading and writing disability, a condition often defined as dyslexia. Again, there are two chief varieties: the primary or developmental reading and writing disability due to constitutional (organic) and hereditary factors, and a large secondary group of symptomatic reading disorders acquired through any of the…
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…through a period of retarded reading and writing disability, a condition often defined as dyslexia. Again, there are two chief varieties: the primary or developmental reading and writing disability due to constitutional (organic) and hereditary factors, and a large secondary group of symptomatic reading disorders acquired through any of the…
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writing
The rise of literacy
…with written language, in both reading and writing, is known as literacy. High levels of literacy are required for using scripts for a wide range of somewhat specialized functions. When a large number of individuals in a society are competent in using written language to serve these functions, the whole…
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…with written language, in both reading and writing, is known as literacy. High levels of literacy are required for using scripts for a wide range of somewhat specialized functions. When a large number of individuals in a society are competent in using written language to serve these functions, the whole…
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preschool education
History
The children learned to read, write, and count and to express themselves artistically.
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The children learned to read, write, and count and to express themselves artistically.
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pedagogy
Maturation and readiness theories
Much of the work on reading skills, for instance, makes use of the readiness concept. The Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870–1952) claimed that “periods of sensitivity,” corresponding to certain ages, exist when a child’s interest and mental capacity are best suited to acquiring knowledge of such things as textures and…
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Much of the work on reading skills, for instance, makes use of the readiness concept. The Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870–1952) claimed that “periods of sensitivity,” corresponding to certain ages, exist when a child’s interest and mental capacity are best suited to acquiring knowledge of such things as textures and…
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special education
Patterns of instructional adaptation
…all from school experience) to read. Children who have learning and mental disabilities require prolonged periods of intensive and more-individualized instruction; for them the learning process might include techniques to maintain interest, more active participation, and much more repetition of similar material in varied form. Children with severe sensory handicaps…
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…all from school experience) to read. Children who have learning and mental disabilities require prolonged periods of intensive and more-individualized instruction; for them the learning process might include techniques to maintain interest, more active participation, and much more repetition of similar material in varied form. Children with severe sensory handicaps…
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