fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
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Taht was alutacly rlealy esay to raed. I jsut toghuht sinthomeg was wnrog wtih my haed. Not olny do I mix up the lteters in ecah wrod, but simetomes, the wrod oedrr of a secnetse deos not mkae a defefnirce.
I assume it's limited after a certain number of letters...
guess the following:
HTCPAEIOCNLHIAGOOCYOSELHCTEENRTOSMTIEOS
i think that is too many letters Meg.
it was surprising how easy the rest was to read. the sad thing is taht children are being taught to learn to read by this type of recognition but they are iliterate. i tried to help one kid read and he kept guessing the wrong words.
Meg,
Is the answer - "supercalafragalisticexpealadocious?"
Stu,
Yes, I agree with you. What you are touching upon is a matter of great debate among educators.
Some people are literature-based/whole language adherents. These people are your "creative spelling" people and "word recognition" people. As this blog shows, there is something to what the cognitive psychologists say about "word recognition."
Some people are phonics advocates. These people focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.
While there are obvious truths touched on by the literature based/whole language movement, I favor the phonics approach to reading instruction. I could give a rationale for my preference, but I have run out of time and energy. I will merely say that my students that were taught using phonics were much more advanced than my literature based/whole language students.
Ok, the word is
HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES
"yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!"
There is a problem. We as literate people can read such things without problems, because our minds quickly reorganizes the 'nonsense' into words we know. This doesn't work if you don't know the words to begin with and/or don't use them frequently. Case in point:
"HTCPAEIOCNLHIAGOOCYOSELHCTEENRTOSMTIEOS".
Another proof is the simple physical characteristics of our eyes. There is a gaping whole in our vision (namely the area where the optic nerve is connected to the eyeball), and other wholes that develope as we age. Not to mention that we actually retrieve information upside down. Our brain only flips the image 'rightside up', because of our other senses of touch and oreintation.
Bieng albe to raed tihs is a tmasteent of citraivety of God's hwndaorik!
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