READING - back to the basics

I thought I knew how to read. I should say... I thought I knew the steps used to read.  I would have described this process as:  1) good book 2) glass of wine 3) comfy chair.  This is not so.  Today, I learned that the processes involved in reading is indepth and wide in scope.  This process is what's referred to as a Task Analysis - thoroughly defining the cognitive and brain functioning steps to read a paragraph.

I counted 16 required tasks were required to read one small paragraph. Executable and developmental functions are required, visual, sounds, languages are all included in the analysis of reading. Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams really explained the depth and scope of reading and representations, past, present and in the technological future.  This is an excellent presentation by Dr. Jager Adams describing language and pictures that represent learning.