Why Reading Like a Lizard Produces Geniuses Forget politics, President Obama and Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, and the Republican Party agree that Reading is the primary skill for any successful career.
We live in the Knowledge Economy, and its tools are technical.
Can you imagine functioning one working day without your computer and the Internet? Can physics, biology and chemistry produce and innovate without advanced reading skills? Inquiring Minds Need to Know There are three systems to reading - decoding the letters and sounds in our language.
1.
Phonics - deciphering the collaboration between the letters of our alphabet and the sounds they link to.
Stop-And-Remember: Phonics controls 62% of comprehension when kids & adults read.
2.
Holistic Word Recognition - means we have a neural network (file) for the SHAPE of words.
We gain comprehension by comparing the shape of the words we read with a standard in our brain.
Holistic Words constitute 16% of how we obtain meaning from reading.
3.
Whole-Language Recognition - we decode the meaning of the words by its CONTEXT in the sentence.
Context means circumstances or facts preceding or following the specific word or phrase.
Whole-Language supplies 22% of our comprehension from reading.
Secret Discovered Linguists - scientists specializing in the principles and grammar of English - have believed that 1-2-3 (Phonics-Holistic-Whole) were redundant, each rehashed what the other system delivered.
The above is wrong.
1-2-3 are ADDITIVE, each one alters and improves the reading process.
Without the salt and pepper, the soup tastes like hot water.
Google: Professor Dennis Pelli, NYU, published August 1, 2007, PloS One So What For the past 100 years schools have been specializing in teaching new readers to read Aloud exclusively using Phonics.
They should have been focusing on Silent Reading using Holistic (remembering the SHAPE of words).
The third piece of the puzzle is Whole-Language - where the reader pays attention to the context of the words in sentences and paragraphs.
Phonics is 62% of the reading process, but Holistic and Whole-Language is what separates the Snailing reader (slow and distracted), from Speed Readers who are innovative and can lead teams to success.
Reading is not a horse race with a single winner.
To gain total comprehension by decoding words, we require the use of 1-2-3 (Phonics-Holistic-Whole).
This new research will help train kids to read better and faster, and offers a new approach to the reading deficit Dyslexia.
Your Three (3) Brains Dr.
Paul D.
MacLean was the first scientist to write about the Triune Brain.
He saw it as not one-brain in structure and function, but three separate, active, generic brains, each with its exclusive gifts and talents.
1.
Reptilian Complex - the oldest brain we inherited from our ancient ancestors the lizards and alligators.
Important? The brainstem and autonomic nervous system of the Reptilian Complex looks to our survival using our Fight-Or-Flight syndrome.
2.
Limbic System - comes from Latin meaning border or belt.
It operates long-term memory (hippocampus), emotions (amygdala), and our behaviors.
3.
Neo-cortex (new brain) and responsible for reason, language, decision-making and planning.
Each of the three has a sort of Veto power, and often integrate their instructions before a final decision is made.
We do not act like a computerized robot when deciding to buy or not-buy, move forward or retire from the field.
Each of 1-2-3 speaks loudly when survival (Reptilian) is at stake, emotions (Limbic) are involved, or when executive decisions (Neo-cortex) are required.
Reading Words & Our Lizard Brain New research by Professor Simon Liversedge, University of Southampton, U.
K.
9.
2007 revealed for the first time how our eyes read specific words.
It was universally assumed by neuroscientists that both our eyes focused as one, when analyzing words while reading.
Wrongo - the left eye sees specific letters of the word, while our right eye decodes different letters of the same word -usually about two-letters apart.
Unlike a lizard that has eyes on the sides of the head, we have our in the CENTER, but our eyes act like the lizard and see two separate PICTURES.
After seeing, our eyes combine the two-images through a system called Optic Fusion.
Once done, we see a sharp, focused single image.
So What, Again Our schools teach kids, and have for 100 years - to read using our Foveal (Central Vision), sharp sight exclusively.
Google: fovea contralis located in our retina.
What is wrong is that reading using foveal vision restricts us to reading one six-letter word at a time.
More than that it gets blurry.
We see 4-6 letters perfectly, so we learn to NOT use our peripheral (side, outside of the center) vision.
Trained Peripheral Vision permits us to read up to 36 letters at a time, or about six words.
The training to perfect peripheral vision is baby-easy and becomes a new habit after 21 days of practice.
Snailers use foveal (Central) vision, while speed reading concentrate on using Peripheral Vision.
Endwords The secret of folks who habitually own triple the core knowledge of their peers, is learning to integrate peripheral vision when reading.
Why bother? These people win promotions, and enjoy double or triple the learning and memory skills.
Would you have a competitive advantage reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers in school and career can hardly finish one? Please contact us for the free details.
copyright (c) 2009 H.
Bernard Wechsler
We live in the Knowledge Economy, and its tools are technical.
Can you imagine functioning one working day without your computer and the Internet? Can physics, biology and chemistry produce and innovate without advanced reading skills? Inquiring Minds Need to Know There are three systems to reading - decoding the letters and sounds in our language.
1.
Phonics - deciphering the collaboration between the letters of our alphabet and the sounds they link to.
Stop-And-Remember: Phonics controls 62% of comprehension when kids & adults read.
2.
Holistic Word Recognition - means we have a neural network (file) for the SHAPE of words.
We gain comprehension by comparing the shape of the words we read with a standard in our brain.
Holistic Words constitute 16% of how we obtain meaning from reading.
3.
Whole-Language Recognition - we decode the meaning of the words by its CONTEXT in the sentence.
Context means circumstances or facts preceding or following the specific word or phrase.
Whole-Language supplies 22% of our comprehension from reading.
Secret Discovered Linguists - scientists specializing in the principles and grammar of English - have believed that 1-2-3 (Phonics-Holistic-Whole) were redundant, each rehashed what the other system delivered.
The above is wrong.
1-2-3 are ADDITIVE, each one alters and improves the reading process.
Without the salt and pepper, the soup tastes like hot water.
Google: Professor Dennis Pelli, NYU, published August 1, 2007, PloS One So What For the past 100 years schools have been specializing in teaching new readers to read Aloud exclusively using Phonics.
They should have been focusing on Silent Reading using Holistic (remembering the SHAPE of words).
The third piece of the puzzle is Whole-Language - where the reader pays attention to the context of the words in sentences and paragraphs.
Phonics is 62% of the reading process, but Holistic and Whole-Language is what separates the Snailing reader (slow and distracted), from Speed Readers who are innovative and can lead teams to success.
Reading is not a horse race with a single winner.
To gain total comprehension by decoding words, we require the use of 1-2-3 (Phonics-Holistic-Whole).
This new research will help train kids to read better and faster, and offers a new approach to the reading deficit Dyslexia.
Your Three (3) Brains Dr.
Paul D.
MacLean was the first scientist to write about the Triune Brain.
He saw it as not one-brain in structure and function, but three separate, active, generic brains, each with its exclusive gifts and talents.
1.
Reptilian Complex - the oldest brain we inherited from our ancient ancestors the lizards and alligators.
Important? The brainstem and autonomic nervous system of the Reptilian Complex looks to our survival using our Fight-Or-Flight syndrome.
2.
Limbic System - comes from Latin meaning border or belt.
It operates long-term memory (hippocampus), emotions (amygdala), and our behaviors.
3.
Neo-cortex (new brain) and responsible for reason, language, decision-making and planning.
Each of the three has a sort of Veto power, and often integrate their instructions before a final decision is made.
We do not act like a computerized robot when deciding to buy or not-buy, move forward or retire from the field.
Each of 1-2-3 speaks loudly when survival (Reptilian) is at stake, emotions (Limbic) are involved, or when executive decisions (Neo-cortex) are required.
Reading Words & Our Lizard Brain New research by Professor Simon Liversedge, University of Southampton, U.
K.
9.
2007 revealed for the first time how our eyes read specific words.
It was universally assumed by neuroscientists that both our eyes focused as one, when analyzing words while reading.
Wrongo - the left eye sees specific letters of the word, while our right eye decodes different letters of the same word -usually about two-letters apart.
Unlike a lizard that has eyes on the sides of the head, we have our in the CENTER, but our eyes act like the lizard and see two separate PICTURES.
After seeing, our eyes combine the two-images through a system called Optic Fusion.
Once done, we see a sharp, focused single image.
So What, Again Our schools teach kids, and have for 100 years - to read using our Foveal (Central Vision), sharp sight exclusively.
Google: fovea contralis located in our retina.
What is wrong is that reading using foveal vision restricts us to reading one six-letter word at a time.
More than that it gets blurry.
We see 4-6 letters perfectly, so we learn to NOT use our peripheral (side, outside of the center) vision.
Trained Peripheral Vision permits us to read up to 36 letters at a time, or about six words.
The training to perfect peripheral vision is baby-easy and becomes a new habit after 21 days of practice.
Snailers use foveal (Central) vision, while speed reading concentrate on using Peripheral Vision.
Endwords The secret of folks who habitually own triple the core knowledge of their peers, is learning to integrate peripheral vision when reading.
Why bother? These people win promotions, and enjoy double or triple the learning and memory skills.
Would you have a competitive advantage reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers in school and career can hardly finish one? Please contact us for the free details.
copyright (c) 2009 H.
Bernard Wechsler
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