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Reading is a complex task
Different areas of the brain are active when we read. We extract visual information that is correlated with sound to get meaning.
Reading does not just involve learning the letters. You have to understand and recognize the words, too. Skilled readers learn to recognize the whole word as a unit and connect it directly to meaning.
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Moving from pictures to the alphabet
- Ancient writing took the leap from drawing a picture as a picture (a logogram) to using it to depict a sound (or phonogram). A "bee" can be used for the sound "be", and when used together with a drawing of a "leaf", they produce the meaning "be-lief."
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The two systems of writing
Japanese children learn two writing systems: The kanji system is based on Chinese characters, and the kana system is purely phonetic.
- Research shows that the same areas in the brain are activated when reading both types of script.
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Writing developed as a response to a need
Some of the earliest writing is from 3000B.C. Mesopotamia. They recorded entries on tablets about the quantities of goods in some kind of bookkeeping.
They wrote down in order to keep account of who delivered what when. But this system was still far away from expressing ideas and writing g...
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All people read much in the same way
People everywhere read words in a very similar way regardless if it is made from pictures, such as pictographs (Chinese characters), or words made from letters.
This knowledge gives us insight into how writing developed and how we read as well as how we can delve deeper in...
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Three types of reading
- Mental reading is when you sound out each word in your head. This is the slowest form of reading.
- Auditory reading is when you listen to an audiobook. This reading is almost twice as fast as mental reading, at abou...
The Processes Of The Brain While Reading
Simplifying, two basic processes happen when you read: There is decoding, or translating the strings of letters into words with meaning. And then there is language processing, or comprehension.
Decoding is specific to reading but by about late elementary school, decoding becom...
Speed reading and information retention
Speed reading can help you skim to content, which is useful at times. However, speed reading cannot help you read faster and retain more information.
- Our eyes are designed only to see a tiny portion of our visual field with the precision needed to recognise a letter ...
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