J. Chew: A great explanation of decoding & comprehension

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J. Chew: A great explanation of decoding & comprehension

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Susan Godsland has just flagged up some very good articles via two threads on the IFERI message forum - one about 'Multi-cueing' and one about 'Decoding and Comprehension' - they are actually both 'linked' topics.

Susan used Jennifer Chew's talk as an explanation of the roles of decoding and comprehension - I particularly like Jenny's explanation and therefore I am adding it here:


http://www.rrf.org.uk/archive.php?n_ID= ... eNumber=57
phonics: the holy grail of reading

Jennifer Chew

The following is the text of a talk given at the ‘Battle of Ideas’ conference organised by the Institute of Ideas on 30 October 2005. The organisers had chosen the title for this session and had asked the Queen’s English Society to choose two speakers likely to represent different viewpoints. The other speaker was Prof. Kathy Hall, of the Open University, who is president-elect of the United Kingdom Literacy Association.

I want to use the handout to show that there are two dimensions to reading: one is decoding and the other is comprehending...
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Susan's two IFERI threads...

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