Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f9VD4A027468; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:04:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:04:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3BDFF6F8.A9DCBC30@ellijay.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Art LaChance <arthur@ellijay.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3686] Re: phonemic awareness X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) Status: O Content-Length: 1595 Lines: 40 Tom, After recovering from almost total shut down of Broca's and Wierneke's area of the left hemisphere due to a brain injury at age ten, followed by relearning written expressive language at around age 36, followed by relearning verbal expressive language at age 55. All melded together with jobs and volunteer work in adult literacy, including family literacy and working with children of all ages having terminal difficulties with reading, and work as a counselor/program manager for folks in a rehabilitation facility, including LD, ADD, ADHD, traumatic brain injured (TBI). Plus some more experiences that would just bore everybody to death. I agree with your thoughts here. Art Art LaChance Gilmer Learning Center Ellijay, GA Woods wrote: > John Nissen wrote: > > The visual recognition is what is sometimes called "whole word" > > reading, which is used for common words, typically "function" > > words; and the phonic recognition is where we mentally sound > > out a word, and is used for the less common words, typically > > "content" words. > > I wonder where you would stand on the idea that among good readers, unknown > words are typically decoded using phonetic strategies, but once the reader > becomes familiar with it, the word then becomes visually recognized as a > "whole word," or sight word, and eventually ALL words become sight words. > > There seems to be some debate about whether readers phonetically decode each > and every word they read, or whether they reserve this strategy only for new > words they don't know. What do others think about this? > > Tom
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