Developmental Reading

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BREAK-UP

7. READING AS A
PHYSIOLOGICA
L
PROCESS

8. LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:1. Acquaintance with reading in terms of its
physiology or internal process in the human
organism;
2. Retention of scientific terms related to the
physiology of reading; and
3. Appreciation of the wondrous process of
reading.

9. Have you ever
wondered about the
process on how reading
is done by man?

10. FACTS
ABOUT
READING

11. READINGinvolves
bothORGANIC OR
PHYSIOLOGICAL
PROCESSAND mental or
cognitive process

12. In the PHYSIOLOGICAL
PROCESS the most basic step is for
the eye to
see
identify
recognize

13. LIGHT PATTERN
from the
printed
symbols hit theFOVEAL
AREAS

14. CREATE patterns of
nerve currents into
the OPTIC NERVE
fiber these currents
travel to a
center in the
MID-BRAIN

15. STAGE OF
READING revolves
around the ability to
IDENTIFY and
RECOGNIZE words.

16. using the CURRENTS
that TRAVEL to the mid-
brain,
the CEREBRAL
CORTEX
interprets the
symbols.

17. Eye movement in reading with the
eye perceiving and pausing
LEFTTO RIGHT AND
TOP-TO-BOTTOM
(WESTERNER)
RIGHTTO LEFT
AND BOTTOM-
TO-TOP (ASIAN)

18. SEVERAL
EYE
MOVEMENTS

19. FIXATIONeye stopping or
getting
fixated on the
word or
words

20. INTER-FIXATIONeye moving from stopping
point to the other

21. RETURN SWEEPS
with the eyes
swinging back from
the end line to the
beginning
of the next line

22. SACCADESshort
quick
hop and
jump
movements

23. REGRESSION
backward right-to-left
movement in case there
is need to double check
what is being read

24. SPAN OF RECOGNITION
eye
recognition of
a group of
words