In a message dated 6/26/2006 6:32:32 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is very interesting when considered together with the big arguments surrounding the teaching of reading in the recent past in the UK. Actually it's probably still going on but it's not so much in the news. On one side are those who say children should learn to recognise whole words and on the other are those who say they should build their understanding of words from knowing what the letters sound like - and then apply some imagination! >> >From what little I know of cognition it doesn't matter just as long as they're exposed to the basic concepts. The human mind is so powerful at associative recognition that it can assimilate the idea from the hints of words and letters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
