Reading Reading The Big Read was a 2003 survey carried out by the BBC, with the goal of finding the "Nation's Best-loved Book" by way of a viewer vote via the Web, SMS and telephone. The show attracted controversy for adopting an allegedly sensationalist approach to literature and for being vulnerable to vote-padding - for example, the top 200 entries include 10 novels by comic fantasy author Terry Pratchett - but supporters praised it for raising the public awareness of reading. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Read"
Bookworm was an eponymous fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic, Whoopee!. It first appeared in the early 1980s, and survived Whoopee's merger with Whizzer and Chips in 1985, becoming a Chip-ite. It was drawn by Sid Burgon for most of its history, although Barry Glennard drew a substantial number of episodes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bookworm (comics)"
Cloze (from closure) is a form of examination technique, commonly but not limited to use on young children and students of English as an additional language to test writing and comprehension skills. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cloze"
===Developmental Stages of Reading for Grades K-2=== ...more on Wikipedia about "Developmental Stages of Reading"
Dyslexia is said to be a neurological disorder with biochemical and genetic markers. The popular definition for many years was that it is was a disability in which a person's perception is reversed or that a dyslexic sees things backwards and, therefore may read or write backwards. However this is no longer believed to be true. Now the popular conception of dyslexia may mean reading and/or writing ability is significantly low. One approach is to compare their ability to that which would be predicted by his or her general level of intelligence, but some would say that it is not certain that intelligence should be a predictor of reading/writing ability; and also that the causes, effects and treatments of reading disabilities may be similar for all levels of intelligence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dyslexia"
Ecocomposition is a way of looking at literacy using the concepts from ecology. It is a post-process theory of writing instruction that tries to account for factors beyond hierarchically defined goals within social settings. However, it doesn't dismiss these goals. Rather, it incorporates them within an ecological view that extends the range of factors affecting the writing process beyond the social to include aspects such as " place" and " nature." ...more on Wikipedia about "Ecocomposition"
Literacy is the ability to read and write. In modern context, the word means reading and writing in a level adequate for written communication and generally a level that enables one to successfully function at certain levels of a society. ...more on Wikipedia about "Literacy"
In speed reading, Meta guiding is the visual guiding of the eye using a finger or pointer, such as a pen, in order for the eye to move faster along the length of a passage of text. This encourages the eye to skim over the text but reduces comprehension and memory, and leads to missing important details of the text. It has also been claimed to reduce subvocalization, thereby speeding up reading. ...more on Wikipedia about "Meta guiding"
A meta-guiding system is a method often taught by speed reading devotees. It involves drawing invisible shapes on a page of text in order to broaden the visual span for speed reading. For example, an audience of customers at a speed reading seminar will be instructed to use a finger or pen to make these shapes on a page and told that this will speed up their visual cortex, increase their visual span to take in the whole line, and even imprint the information into their subconcious for later retrieval. ...more on Wikipedia about "Meta Guiding Systems"
Multimedia literacy is a new aspect of literacy that is being recognised as technology expands the way people communicate. Literacy is the ability to read and write. In modern context, the word means reading and writing at a level adequate for written communication and generally a level that enables one to successfully function at certain levels of a society. Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information ( text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). With widespread use of computers, 'reading' and 'writing' are often done via a computer, hence the need for multimedia literacy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Multimedia literacy"
My Favourite Book was a 2004 survey carried out by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to ...more on Wikipedia about "My Favourite Book"
Proofreading means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Proofreading"
A radio reading service or reading service for the blind is a service of many public radio stations, where a narrator reads newspapers and magazines aloud for the benefit of the blind and vision-impaired. It is most often carried on a subcarrier, with radio receivers permanently tuned to a given station in the area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Radio reading service"
Readability is a measure of the accessibility of a piece of writing. Both the reading level of the audience and the complexity of the passage in question factor into readability. A rough idea of readability is useful for people who want their writing to be reached by a broad audience. ...more on Wikipedia about "Readability"
Reading is the process of retrieving and comprehending some form of stored information or ideas. These ideas are usually some sort of representation of language, as symbols to be examined by sight, or by touch (for example Braille). Other types of reading may not be language-based, such as music notation or pictograms. By analogy, in computer science, reading is acquiring of data from some sort of computer storage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Reading (activity)"
Reading comprehension can be defined as the level of understanding of a passage or text. For normal reading rates (around 200-220 words per minute) an acceptable level of comprehension is above 75%. ...more on Wikipedia about "Reading comprehension"
Reading is Fundamental is a literacy organization based in the United States, with affiliated programs in the United Kingdom and Argentina. It was founded in 1966 by Margaret McNamara in Washington, D.C. and aims primarily to teach reading to youth under the age of 8. It provides 17 million free books to libraries each year to this end under a contract with the United States Department of Education as part of the Inexpensive Book Distribution Program. It achieves high visibility through public service announcements on children's television programs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Reading is Fundamental"
Sight reading is the reading and performing of a work—typically, a piece of music, but sometimes also linguistic texts like drama—without having seen it before. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sight reading"
Skimming is a high speed reading process and involves visually searching the sentences of a page for clues to meaning. It is conducted at a higher rate (around 700wpm plus) than normal reading for comprehension (around 200-230wpm) (sometimes known as rauding), and results in severely lower comprehension rates, especially with information rich reading material. Skimming is considered by reading experts to be hazardous, and should only be used when comprehension is not an objective. ...more on Wikipedia about "Skimming (reading)"
The Spalding Method is a program for teaching students to read by first teaching them to write, hence the name of the Spalding text, The Writing Road to Reading. Students first learn phonograms. Phonograms are the written form of the sounds used in the English language. In English there are 26 letters of the alphabet, but there are 70 phonograms that represent 45 English sounds. Some examples of these phonograms are "a" which makes the sounds a as in cat,ay, and ah, also there are blends such as "sh" and "ch" and "wor". Students learn these sounds by looking at flash cards which show the phonogram, listening to a teacher, parent, tutor, or CD say the sound, the child repeats the sound back and writes it. Spalding is phonics based but is more than just phonics, it is a total language arts approach which integrates instruction in speaking, spelling, writing, listening, and reading comprehension. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spalding Method"
Speed reading is a method of reading rapidly by assimilating several words or phrases at a glance or by skimming. ...more on Wikipedia about "Speed reading"
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Subvocalization, or silent speech, is defined as the internal speech made when reading a word, thus allowing the reader to imagine the sound of the word as it is read (Carver 1990). This is a natural process when reading and helps to reduce cognitive load, and helps the mind to access meanings to enable it to comprehend and remember what is read. ...more on Wikipedia about "Subvocalization"
Vision span or perceptual span is the width and height at which the human eye has an effective focus area to view text. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vision span"
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