Friday, October 29, 2010

What Is Reading? Decoding and the Jabberwocky’s Song

This article by Sebastian Wren was written in 2005 looks at Lewis Carroll's book, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Alice reads a poem and confesses that she is a little confused about what the poem actually means.  The article illustrates the difference between being able to decode words phonetically  as Alice was able to, and actually  being able to derive meaning from the words and the concepts they are trying to convey.

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