Reading But not understanding

Dymock, Susan

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“…The REALM instrument may have overestimated literacy, as patients able to correctly pronounce words may not have understood them. 29,30 Scoring decisions in our multi-ethnic practice population were often problematic because it was difficult to judge between a strong accent and mispronunciation. However, patients seen to be at ease with a term but not pronouncing it exactly were given credit for that word.…”

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Literacy in Primary Care Populations

Smith

Haggerty

2003

Can J Public Health

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Background: Almost half of Canadians experience difficulty using print media, according to the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey. Our objectives were to estimate the prevalence of low-literacy patients in our practice, to determine whether reading grade level is associated with self-perceived health status in primary care, and to evaluate the reading difficulty of commonly used patient education pamphlets. Methods:We surveyed a random sample of 229 patients aged 18 to 85 years presenting for scheduled and walk-in care. Main outcome measures were reading ability as estimated by word decoding skill with the validated Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) and self-perceived health status using COOP/WONCA functional health measures. We assessed the reading difficulty of 120 commonly used patient education pamphlets using the Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) formula. Results:The prevalence of low-literate patients was 9%. Poor reading ability in English was most likely among patients under 45 years of age not having completed high school, and among those whose maternal language was neither English nor French (immigrants). REALM scores and self-perceived health were weakly correlated but not significant statistically. The mean reading grade level of pamphlets was grade 11.5 (SD: 1.5). Seventyeight percent of pamphlets required at least a high school reading level. Conclusion:Literacy levels were higher than expected in our patient population; this finding may be due to the rapid assessment tool used, which may have underestimated the difficulty of using print media. Clearly, the vast majority of commonly used patient education materials would not meet the needs of low-literate patients, who may be more likely to experience poorer health. Providers need to be sensitive to the reading limitations of patients and patient education materials should be written at a lower reading level.La traduction du résumé se trouve à la fin de l'article.

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Literacy in Primary Care Populations

Smith

Haggerty

2003

Can J Public Health

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“…Then I invited students to try, prompting them to consider if their idea made sense and sounded like how they talk (Burkins & Yates, 2021). While reading, I asked inferential questions to ensure that students were actively engaged in constructing a mental model of the text (Duke & Cartwright, 2021;Dymock, 1993;Woolley, 2011). If the book had an irregular high-frequency word, such as "have," that we had not yet studied, I would introduce that word first, mapping the sounds in the word to the letters that spell those sounds (Burkins & Yates, 2021).…”

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Incorporating Decodable Books into an Early Grades Literacy Curriculum: Tensions and New Learnings from One Teacher

Elson,

Pennell,

Jordan

et al. 2024

The Reading Teacher

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In this article, one teacher shares her journey using decodable books with her culturally and linguistically diverse students, documenting new understandings and tensions that she has encountered. Four literacy teacher educators augment the teacher's story by connecting it with the current literature on literacy and decodable books. After reading this article, readers will walk away with a stronger understanding of how and when to use decodable books with beginning readers, as well as concrete ideas and resources to support incorporating decodable books into the early grades literacy curriculum.

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“…In effect, showing a capacity to sort "attitude-consistentent" material from "attitude-discrepant" material. This rather than the sentence as a whole (Dymock, 1993).. Dyson & Haselgrove's discussions on the increase in skim reading in the internet age is particularly relevant here, as it is unlikely that responders to this survey were reading at the same speed at which they regularly browse the internet. It is likely that given that the participants knew they were performing a survey, their reading speeds would have altered, potentially lengthened given the survey environment compared to the scrolling environment of a modern news site, message board or social media platform.…”

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Us vs them: Tribalism, selective exposure & how non-partisan online news media engagement can be facilitated

Doran¹

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<p>Codeswitching is the action of switching between languages to better impart information to a recipient. This thesis introduces a set of codeswitching translator tools as a method of disrupting the potentially damaging structures of tribal politics through the manipulation of ideologically specific language norms. We first investigate how tribalism and group identity impact our ability to participate in political discourse. Using this insight from a host of different research disciplines, we design an iterative testing environment for a variety of ‘codeswitching’ translators in order to see the impact of translations ranging in complexity from simple word and syntax substitution through to machine learning back-translation. Though back-translation was not found to be an effective technique, simple substitution methods provided a foundation of effectiveness and proof of concept among test participants, especially those that identified as politically aligned.</p>

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Reading But not understanding

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Literacy in Primary Care Populations

Literacy in Primary Care Populations

Incorporating Decodable Books into an Early Grades Literacy Curriculum: Tensions and New Learnings from One Teacher

Us vs them: Tribalism, selective exposure & how non-partisan online news media engagement can be facilitated

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