Reading Essentials: Cognitive Science and the Gift of Fluency for All

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A Course Guidebook for the online course Reading Essentials by Helen Abadzi.

Author(s): Helen Abadzi
Edition: Draft
Publisher: University of Texas
Year: 2014

Language: English
Pages: 97

1. Challenges in educating the very poor
2. How will you learn a script fastest?
3. The invisible hand of visual perception
4. From perception to automaticity
5. Memory functions and their relevance for basic skills
6. Reading features of various languages and scripts
7. Reading comprehension basics
8. Language of instruction issues and choices
9. Training teachers of limited education
10. Textbooks for rapid automatization of reading
11. Reading assessment basics
12. Efficient literacy for all in about 100 days
13. Examples of reading methods used in various countries
14. Adult literacy and second-chance education
15. Implementation challenges, strategies to eliminate illiteracy