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Sign in to saveReading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch.
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Reading is the process of taking in the meaning of written symbols through your eyes or sense of touch. It matters because it allows people to access and understand information, ideas, and communication that have been recorded in written form.
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- Overview
- Reading vs. literacy
- Writing systems
- Cognitive benefits
- The right to read
- State of reading achievement
- Kindergarten to grade four
- Middle school to high school
- Adults ages 16 to 65
- World-wide
- National and International reports
- NAEP - US grades 4 and 8
- PIAAC - adults, 16 to 65
- PIRLS - fourth graders
- PISA - 15-year-old school pupils
- EQAO - Ontario, Canada, grade 3
- International research reports about best practices
- 2000 – [[National Reading Panel]] (NRP) (U.S.)
- 2005 – [[Teaching Reading, National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy (Australia 2005-The Rowe Report)]]
- 2006 – [[Independent review of the teaching of early reading (Rose Report 2006)]] ([[England]])
- 2022 – [[Right to Read inquiry report]] (R2R) (Canada)
- Learning to read
- Spoken language: the foundation of reading
- Reading to children: necessary but not sufficient
- Optimum age for learning to read
- Suggested reading instruction by grade level
- Foundational reading skill instruction practices, kindergarten through grade 12
- Stages to skilled reading
- Emerging pre-reader: 6 months to 6 years old
- Novice reader: 6 to 7 years old
- Decoding reader: 7 to 9 years old
- Fluent, comprehending reader: 9 to 15 years old
- Expert reader: 16 years and older
- Science of reading
- Foundational skills instruction
- Simple view of reading
- Scarborough's reading rope
- Active view of reading model
- Automaticity
- How the brain reads
- Eye movement and silent reading rate
- Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud
- The production effect (reading out loud)
- Evidence-based reading instruction
- Multisensory learning
- Explicit instruction vs. implicit instruction
- Teaching print-to-speech vs. speech-to-print
- Reading from paper vs. screens
- Handwriting vs. typing practice in letter and word learning
- Teaching reading and writing together
- Computer-Based Early Reading Program
- Belief in neuromyths among primary school teachers
- Teacher training and legislation
- Skeptics and critics of SoR
- Teaching reading for alphabetic languages
- Phonics and related areas
- Combining phonics with other literacy instruction
- Effectiveness of programs
- Systematic phonics
- Analytic phonics and analogy phonics
- Embedded phonics with mini-lessons
- Phonics through spelling
- Synthetic phonics
- Structured literacy
- Related areas
- Phonemic awareness
- Vocabulary
- Sight vocabulary vs. sight words
- Fluency
- Reading comprehension
- Spelling instruction and reading
- Using embedded pictures, and mnemonic alphabet cards when teaching phonics
- Introducing the Letters - Faster vs. slower
- Whole language and related areas
- Balanced literacy
- Three cueing system (Searchlights model)
- Three Ps (3Ps) – Pause Prompt Praise
- Guided reading, reading workshop, shared reading, leveled reading, silent reading (and self-teaching)
- Reading wars: phonics vs. whole language
- Tutoring in reading
- Teaching reading for logographic languages
- Requirements for proficient reading
- Reading difficulties
- Decoding
- Reading rate
- Reading fluency
- Reading comprehension
- Radio reading service
- History
- History of learning to read
- Other terms
- Gallery
- Paintings
- Photographs
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch.
For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), punctuation, alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.