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Originally Posted by ebacon
Dondilion,
I agree. As I recall, reading comprehension was a big part of my fear. The piece that I was asked to read was fiction. At that age my mind was still rooted in fact. I loved airplanes and would have read pages of facts about them with enthusiasm. But fiction was out of my scope of comprehension.
Shortly after that event, maybe even with the same teacher, I recall reading my first fiction book and understanding it. The teacher sat with me and explained the Newberry Award? for children's fiction, and the book was an award winner. What struck a chord with me in the book was the characters voices were written with dialect -- they were spelled wrong. The dialects helped me "hear" the characters and visualize them. That was an interesting learning experience.
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As an exercise in what words mean:
Suppose that everyone spoke like the people on the six o'clock news. What then could the word "character" be whittled down to? Dress? Skin color? Musculature? etc.
I can only remember so many facts about a character when I read. But when I hear a voice I generally know right away who it is. There is name for that science.