Symbol-Brained
Dave Monroe
monropolitan at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 13 08:49:08 CDT 2005
Well, what I find most interesting about learning to
read from Dr. Seuss is that, while The Cat in the Hat
was written with the limited vocabularly of a specific
theory of reading in mind ...
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?021223crat_atlarge
... most of the rest of that Seussian ouevre features
a not inconsiderable amount of non-words, involving
both working out phonetics (at least insofar as Seuss'
"nonsense' words as often as not are constructed as
part as a rhyme/rhythm sceme as well as part of an
allusive network) and recognizing the function of such
words regardless of meaning (i.e., knowing that
there's SOME sort of animal or machinery or whatever
being, well, not to much refrred to as implied).
Structure before content. The grammar before the
dictionary ...
The Cat in the Hat was never nearly the favorite that
Bartholomew and the Oobleck or If I Ran the Circus or
The Sleep Book were. I wish I'd been taking notes on
my youngest brother (b. 1980), who's since gone
dangerously schizophrenic, but ...
And then there wre the globes, maps, atlases ...
--- Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> You may have memorized the books as well as been
> learning some sight words. The comprehension may
> have been there to retell stories. But accurately
> sounding out a new word, like cart, and putting it
> into comprehensible context is not going to happen
> until the child is 3 at the earliest and sometimes
> never happens.
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