On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> I don't understand this at all. Who needs a knowledge base? What is the
> NAEP? Who is the "we" doing the expecting? What does it mean to read
> "confidently"? I don't read anything more than two or three sentences
> confidently, because in anything longer my eyes will deceive me by
> seeing a different word than the text contains. For example, it was only
> the third time I read through your post that I recognized the word
> "encounter." (I can't remember how I construed those marks the first two
> readings.)
>
> Carrol
>
> Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>>
>> "What’s needed is a substantial knowledge base. Knowledge of the
>> content they are likely to encounter when reading the sorts of
>> materials we expect them to read confidently: newspapers, magazines,
>> and serious books."
>>
>> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/daniel-willingham/willingham-misunderstanding-na.html
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