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Reading
Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they represent. Concepts of reading have changed
(51) over the centuries. During the 1950’s and 1960’s especially, increased attention has been devoted to defining and describing the reading process.
(52) specialists agree that reading
(53) a complex organization of higher mental
(54) , they disagree about the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily as a code using symbols to represent sounds,
(55) reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand
(56) . These authorities
(57) that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process.
Others maintain that reading is inexplicably related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without
(58) their meaning is not truly r
A. content
B. contend
C. contempt
D. contact