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Make Believe

by Mac Barnett

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“all human behaviors are based on multiple cognitive processes, which are based on the rapid integration of information from very specific neurological structures, which rely on billions of neurons capable of trillions of possible connections, which are programmed in large part by genes.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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“inflexible muteness of written words doomed the dialogic process Socrates saw as the heart of education.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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“The world of fantasy presents a conceptually perfect holding environment who are just leaving the more concrete stages of cognitive processing.... as fluent comprehending readers learn to enter into the lives of imagined heroes and heroines, along the Mississippi or through a wardrobe portal.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

tags: cognitive-processing, fantasy, fiction, growth, imagination, learning-to-read, reading

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“Indeed, as some historians observe, the changing relationships of readers to text over time can be seen as one index of the history of thought.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

tags: history-of-ideas, history-of-thought, intellectual-history, reading

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“Comprehension processes [for young readers] grow.... [when] they leave the surface layers of text to explore the wondrous terrain that lies beneath it.

The reading expert Richard Vacca describes this shift as a development from "fluent decoders" to "strategic readers"--"readers who know how to activate prior knowledge before, during and after reading, to decide what's important in a text"....”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

tags: cognitive-development, growth, readers, reading, reading-books, self-help

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