Reading is mostly just recognizing words (and word components) by sight.
- Reading is mostly just recognizing words (and word components) by sight.
- That's why it's so automatic once you have enough practice.
- You can't not read words.
- It just happens, automatically.
- There's also an inductive procedure to bootstrap new words by sounding them out.
- This process is error prone and mentally challenging.
- It gets easier the more sounds you already know, because you can pattern match components.
- We acquire spoken words orders of magnitude easier than than written words.
- As you know more words, you have more context clues… you recognize the other words, so can additionally think, "what word that has vaguely that sound fits in this sentence."
- This process is robust enough to just require some priming and patience.