2. Learning about Literacy: A 30-Year Journey By P. David Pearson & Diane Stephens Presented by Pat Edwards & Hakim Shahid Edu. 707 Dr J. McEneaney

3. Introduction

4. Purpose  To journey through the historical facets of various academic disciplines in order to better understand their individual impact on reading education.

5. Reading Genesis  The goal of the reader was to translate from the written language (orthography) to the verbal code.

6. Linguistic Perspective

7. Important Theories  1. Literate societies represent key features of its oral language into its written language.  2. Inferred normal language processes are not represented in the written language.  3. Children are innately “predisposed” to learn language.

8. Psycholinguistic Perspective

9. Derivational Theory of Complexity  The number of grammatical transformations that were needed to get from the surface structure of a sentence to its underlying deep structure is the essence of comprehension.

10. Language Acquisition Group  Language learning is a rule- governed process.

11. Miscues  Errors children make while reading give insight into the inner working of their comprehension processes.

12. Three Cue System  Readers use syntactic, semantic, and graphophonemic cues to better make sense of text.

13. Constructive Process  Reading is a matter of making predictions, relying on cues, and formulating meaning.

14. Cognitive Psychology Perspective

15. Story Grammar (Nancy Stein & David Rumelhart)  Structural account of the nature of narratives and how it enhances human story comprehension.

16. Expository Text (Walter Kintsch & Bonnie Meyer)  Structural account of the nature of informational texts and how it enhances human story comprehension.

17. Schema (R.C. Anderson & P.D. Pearson)  The structure of human knowledge as it is represented in memory via informational context.

18. Sociolinguistic Perspective

19. Dialect and Reading ( W. Labov, J. Baratz, & R. Shuy)  Dialect constituted a well- developed linguistic system complete with rules for variations from standard English.

20. Reading as a Social Process (Michael Halliday & Shirley B. Heath)  Community and culture play key roles in shaping the learning processes in children.

21. Reading Revelations

22.  a.Advanced cognitive flexibility  b.Reader-document interaction  c.Political-based reading education  d. ?????