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Cover
The Literary Agenda: Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century
Copyright
Series Introduction
Contents
List of Figures
1: Introduction
Working assumptions
Structure of the book
Notes
2: A Linguist\'s Tale
A linguistic primer for oral and written language
Phonology
Four tiers of sound
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Orthography
The linguist\'s tale of a bear
Notes
3: A Child\'s Tale
On turning ten
Pre-reading can last a very long time
What\'s in a word
What\'s in a letter
What\'s in the visual cortex. What is not in a word, a letter, or the visual cortex for the non-literate personThe first \"revolution in the brain\"
Literacy and child\'s play
Notes
4: A Neuroscientist\'s Tale of Words
Overview
Tales of words-structural, temporal, and physiological
A few basic design principles that allowed us to read
Connectivity and neuroplasticity
Retinotopic and tonotopic organization principles
Working groups / cell assemblies
Plato, Socrates, and who taught whom
Eidolon-imaging the word through processes of attention and vision
Attention
Vision
Onoma-retrieving the name of the word. Finding the nameMeanings-connecting semantic and syntactic systems
Semantic contributions to the meaning of a word
Syntactic contributions to understanding the word
Notes
5: The Deep Reading Brain
Episteme-connecting the name to the reader\'s knowledge
Entry processes-imagery, perspective-taking, and background knowledge
Imagery
Perspective-taking
Background knowledge
Metacognitive \"scientific method\" processes-analogical, inferential, and critical analytical abilities
Analogy as bridge
Inferential abilities (observation, deduction, and induction)
Critical analyses. Generativity processes: the time for insight and novel thought\"Towards a neural signature of insight\"
Generativity
Notes
6: A Second Revolution in the Brain
Habits of the young and old
The changing nature of attention and its effects
Distraction and its sources
How we attend affects how we read: the \"new norms\" in reading
The relationship between how we attend and what we read
Information: how much is too much? Knowledge: how much is too little?
Deep reading and what comes next
A first algorithm for what comes next
Notes
7: A Tale of Hope for Non-Literate Children. History of the projectPrinciples and framework for first deployments
Tablet content principles and the app map
Immediate first goals
First assessment
Next steps
Summary and next directions
Notes
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index.