Reading - the grand illusion : how and why people make sense of print

What Is Reading? In This Groundbreaking Book, Esteemed Researchers Ken Goodman, Peter Fries, And Steven Strauss, Explain Not Only What Reading Really Is But Also Why Common Sense Makes It Seem To Be Something Quite Different From That Reality. How Can This Grand Illusion Be Explained? That Is The Purpose Of This Book. As The Authors Show, Unraveling The Secrets Of The Grand Illusion Of Reading Teaches About Far More Than Reading Itself, But Also About How Remarkable Human Language Is, How The Brain Uses Language To Navigate The World, What It Means To Be Human. Each Author Brings A Different Perspective, But All Share A Common View Of The Reading Process. Together They Provide A Clear And Surprising Exposition Of The Reading Process, In Which They Involve Readers Of This Book In Exploring The Ways They Themselves Read And Make Sense Of Written Language While Their Eyes Fixate On Fewer Than 70 Percent Of The Words In The Text. In Addition, The Authors Engage In A Cross-disciplinary Discussion About How Readers Use The Brain, Eyes, And Language In Reading. The Different Perspectives Provide Depth To The Authors’ Description Of Reading. The Information Presented In This Book Will Be New To Many Teachers, Researchers, Teacher Educators, And The Public Alike. The Final Chapter Draws On The Understandings From The Book To Challenge The Treatment Of Reading And Writing As School Subjects And Offers The Basis For Supporting Literacy Development As A Natural Extension Of Oral Language Development--publisher's Website. Illusions: What We See And What We Perceive -- The Grand Illusion In Reading -- Reading With Our Brains -- Making Sense: What We Know About Reading -- Text Features That Help Readers Make Sense -- Words On Words And Wording -- The Visible Level Of Written Language: The Graphophonic -- Literacy For The Twenty-first Century And Beyond. Ken Goodman, Peter H. Fries, Steven L. Strauss. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Brief Contents Contents Foreword Preface Sense and Common Sense The Authors Our Goal Acknowledgments 1 Illusions: What We See and What We Perceive Language: Our Most Human Characteristic Reading Is Language The Illusion of Reading Every Word Limitations of Our Senses and Illusions of the Human Brain On Seeing and Knowing References 2 The Grand Illusion in Reading Illusions and the Grand Illusion Vision and Perception in Reading: Learning and Reading with EMMA Language Patterns and Eye Movements How Does Knowledge of Language Help Us to Understand Reading? References 3 Reading with Our Brains Consistency of Our View of Reading with Developing Brain Theory Making Sense Is the Preferred State of the Human Brain Making Sense Is Itself an Illusion A New Paradigm: The Neuroscience of Constructive Psychology What Does It Mean for the Brain to be Focused? It’s the Cortex that Makes Sense! Convergence Who Denies Biology? References 4 Making Sense: What We Know about Reading Miscue Research: Windows on the Reading Process Reading Is a Process of Making Sense of Print Intuition: Reading as a Psycholinguistic Guessing Game Reading Is Cyclical The Need for Real Language So Let Me Review What We Have Learned about Reading References 5 Text Features that Help Readers Make Sense But Where Is the Meaning? How Texts Convey Meaning References 6 Words on Words and Wording The Wording of Texts: What Counts as a Word? The Wording of a Particular Text Interdependence of Grammar and Word Choice in Wording of Texts Efficiency in Wording How Text Complexity Is Reflected in Miscues So What Makes a Text Comprehensible? The Brain Functions Holistically References 7 The Visible Level of Written Language: The Graphophonic Whole to Part and Part to Whole Phonics: The Over-Simplification Illusion Seven, Plus or Minus Two Punctuation Readability References 8 Literacy for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond Focus on Learning Learning to Read and Write Is Easy A Bold Proposal Achieving in School What Children are Already Achieving Outside of School And a Motto for the Kids: When in Doubt, Figure it Out! Connecting to Culture Time for Language Development The Role of the Teacher Whole Language Manufactured Crisis Revaluing Access Is a Key Aspect of All Kinds of Language Development The Future of Literacy References Index