The History of Silent Reading: Marilyn Jager Adams

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The History of Silent Reading: Marilyn Jager Adams

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A fascinating snippet by Marilyn Jager Adams:

The History of Silent Reading: Mysterious and Instructive


http://edublog.scholastic.com/post/hist ... d=13361844
The History of Silent Reading: Mysterious and Instructive

Marilyn Jager Adams April 6th, 2015

Written language, in one form or another, has been around for thousands of years, alphabetic scripts for more than 3,000. Even so, the notion that written language was to be read for understanding was hardly appreciated, much less accepted, by Europeans until the early Renaissance.
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