I'm confused about the immersive reading thing. Isn't it as opposed to
reading word-by-word? If kids are stumbling over reading aloud (thus
not good at word-by-word) are they really about to cruise in auto-drive?

I'm assuming that there is some stage where people recognize words as a
whole but read word-by-word (reading aloud to oneself, as it were) but
to what extent does boumaization apply to that?

Gunnar


>>>  This seems to contain the assumption that kids (albeit
>>>  kids reading a long book) read n the manner you call
>>>  "immersive reading." Is there good evidence of that?
>>
>> There is evidence (see Tinker and Patterson, as well
>> as "Legibility in Children's Books" by L Watts, 1974)
>> that children move from serial-letterwise to immersive
>> reading around age 10. This can certainly vary a lot,
>> but it's a good working average.
>
> That sounds about right. When my daughter was in 4th Grade
> (9/10-year-olds), I was a sometime volunteer at her school. I was
> asked to listen to pupils (two at a time) read a chapter of a book to
> me and also to understand the passage. I was amazed/shocked at the
> level of reading ability of some of the kids. Admittedly it was only
> about 20 kids I heard read, but most of them stumbled over the
> relatively simple passage.
>
> So it does make sense to me that age 10 would be about the time kids
> gradually change to immersive reading.
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