ABSTRACT
First, you may be aware that you are able to read most of the words-that is, you can
attend to and identify the graphic symbols (letters) in the words and say them out loud or
read them silently. However, you may be uncertain whether you have made the correct
print-to-sound associations and correct pronounciations-EUCALYPTUS ptychocarpa,
for example. Second, you may have become aware that you knew the meaning or
understood the “gist” of the texts. On one or two occasions, however, you may have been
able to decode the words but may not have been sure of their meanings-“apa,” for
example. You may have read a whole phrase or sentence, but had only a vague idea about
the meaning or importance of the words-for example, “Early to middle Cycladic period,
c. 2000BC.”
