Read with me practice and play book 2 : key words to reading.

Actividades de entretenimiento para que los niños mejoren las habilidades en: lectura, escritura, dibujo, contar, jugar, lenguaje. Los símbolos que aparecen en cada página les sirven de guía visual para las actividades propuestas, que les ayudan a mejorar la comprensión verbal y escrita, la atención visual y la destreza con las manos.

The gift of dyslexia : why some of the brightest people can't read and how they can learn.

Se explica desde la experiencia personal qué es ser disléxico. El autor demuestra que las personas con dislexia tienen talentos especiales de la percepción, la imaginación y la intuición, que pueden ser usados para poder dominar los problemas que tienen con la lectura y las matemáticas. Muestra cómo la mente del disléxico trabaja y cómo los problemas se ven agravados por el fracaso y la frustración. Paso a paso, partiendo de técnicas prácticas, utilizando la visualización y el aprendizaje multisensorial, ayuda a los niños y adultos con problemas de lectura y escritura a causa de la dislexia.

Read on : un programa escocés para la mejora de la lectura.

El artículo forma parte de una sección de la revista dedicada a la tutoría entre iguales

Predicting the ability to lip-read in children who have a hearing loss

This study aims to discover if a variety of factors related to a child's education and audiologic history predict a child's ability to lip-read.

"The Poet of Science": how scientists read their Tennyson

Tennyson’s responses to science have been thoroughly documented and discussed, but how did scientists respond to his poetry? Through examining in detail the work of three scientists who wrote at length about Tennyson--the astronomer Norman Lockyer, the physicist Oliver Lodge, and the American geologist William North Rice--it is possible to see how Tennyson went from being respected by contemporary scientists to being feted as the Poet of Science itself after his death. As a materialist, a Spiritualist, and a Darwinian Methodist respectively, Lockyer, Lodge, and Rice had very different conceptions of how science worked and what it implied about the universe, yet each looked to Tennyson and his poetry to confirm and extend his own judgements and values.

Does the PMSP connectionist model of single word reading learn to read in the same way as a child?

The Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg and Patterson (1996) connectionist model of reading was evaluated at two points early in its training against reading data collected from British children on two occasions during their first year of literacy instruction. First, the network’s non-word reading was poor relative to word reading when compared with the children. Second, the network made more non-lexical than lexical errors, the opposite pattern to the children. Three adaptations were made to the training of the network to bring it closer to the learning environment of a child: an incremental training regime was adopted; the network was trained on grapheme– phoneme correspondences; and a training corpus based on words found in children’s early reading materials was used. The modifications caused a sharp improvement in non-word reading, relative to word reading, resulting in a near perfect match to the children’s data on this measure. The modified network, however, continued to make predominantly non-lexical errors, although evidence from a small-scale implementation of the full triangle framework suggests that this limitation stems from the lack of a semantic pathway. Taken together, these results suggest that, when properly trained, connectionist models of word reading can offer insights into key aspects of reading development in children.