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 fA3JAq023781; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 14:10:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 14:10:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <31.1d1f3cbe.29159a05@aol.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: LELemke@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3701] sight reading X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 36 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 699 Lines: 15 Dear Clif, Another example of sight reading is a preschool child who recognizes all the fast food logos. I know that if McDonalds were isolated the child would probably not be able to read it, but recognizing logos is the precursor to sight reading. Again, with sight reading, no sounding out takes place, neither in one's mind or anywhere else. We simply recognize the word immediately. Perhaps a better example is one's name. When my son was three, we were moving to Germany. The moving van had the same name as our last name. He looked at it and read it, not because he sounded it out, but because he had seen his last name enough times to recognize it "on sight." Ciao!! Ellie
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